Chrono Toon Written by Kieron " Dark Helmet " Wells Email: Dark_Helmet5@Hotmail.com Chapter One: Prologue A rainy, gloomy day in Acme Acres. The day started off with a cloudy overcast. It was a Saturday, and Buster was bored and everyone else seemed to be engaged in some other activity. Buster flipped on his T.V. and let out a sigh of boredom. "This couldn't be more boring," Buster said, flipping through the channels. The incessant clicking of the remote control was starting to irritate him. "I have to find SOMETHING to do!" Buster exclaimed. Buster had been receiving busy signals from Babs' house all day. He once again picked up the receiver of the red phone on the wooden table beside him and tried again. He still was unable to get through. "Okay, that's it. I'm going over there," Buster said. He slammed down the phone, and a small ring came out when the plastic receiver hit the base at a high speed. He flipped the switch and shut off the T.V. Nobody else was home, so Buster just left the house silently. The rain outside continued and thunder struck. Buster climbed out of his burrow in the forest and headed off. Buster arrived at Babs' burrow, which is similar in appearance to his. Buster knocked on the ground next to it. "Hey, Babs! You in there?" Buster yelled. "Just a second," he heard her say. She poked her head up out of the hole and said, "Hey, Buster. Can't talk now. I'm doing spring cleaning. I'll call you later. See ya," Babs said. Then, she slipped back down into her home, with Buster standing there, annoyed, in a rain storm that was steadily increasing. "Oh, great. I'm bored, and now I'm soaking wet. Could this get much worse?" Buster said to himself. He then began to make his way back. As he proceeded away from Babs' home, he walked by another burrow. He peered \inside out of curiosity. He couldn't see much of anything. He thought it was probably the rain in his face, but he could've almost sworn that there was no bottom to this burrow, and it just went on and on. Buster leaned in close, and suddenly, something struck him in the back of the head. He was pushed over into the hole. As he fell into the hole, he saw what hit him. It was a silver, broken mirror. It came from Babs' spring cleaning (she usually just tossed old things out the front door, and this one flew a bit too far). Suddenly, during the perilous descent into the unidentified burrow, a flash came from above. Lightning shot into the hole, and reflected off the silver mirror. Small bits of glass flew everywhere as the mirror got a large, lightning-bolt shaped crack down it. All that could be seen from the surface was a small, translucent blue flash of light. A small sound that couldn't be heard above the rain was created from the blast. Nobody was around to witness it. Buster didn't know what it might do or where it might lead, but he was about to find out. Chapter 2: The millennial fair The loud pops of fireworks being shot off, balloons were being released into the air, and a loud cheer was heard. A somewhat old woman rabbit crept up the old wooden stairs of the two story house near the fairgrounds. She stepped into a bedroom, flipped on the lights and yelled, "Hey! Wake up, sleepy head." When that didn't work, she walked back downstairs. A loud air horn blasted from the bottom floor, and Buster shot up out of bed. The woman headed back upstairs, and said to Buster, "You finally got up. I thought you might end up sleeping through the whole millennial fair!" Buster got a perplexed look on his face. In a tired voice he muttered," Millennial fair? What are you talking about?!? " The woman laughed. "Oh, you're so tired, son. It's the celebration for the year 1000, and they're holding the fair. Also, on this date, the kingdom of Acmia beat the evil wizard in a war," she said, chuckling throughout the sentence. The woman walked back downstairs. Buster looked thoroughly confused, thinking that either he or that woman had gone insane. After pulling himself together, Buster stumbled out of bed and thought to himself, "What happened?" Buster went over to the mirror and saw himself. he was in a blue suit with something tied around the bathrobe resembling piece of clothing. Next to the hideous orange wig was a sword. "A sword? What do I need that for?" It took a couple of minutes before something hit him. "Hey, did that woman say the year 1000? Ahh!!!" Buster screamed to himself. Buster took a second and absorbed the shock. However, he tried to think about where he came from. Nothing came to him. He did seem to know about the place he was now in. His life in this new place seemed to come to him all at once. He was calmer now. Buster stepped over to the sword hanging on the wall and put it in his hands. He stood over by the mirror. He glanced around to make sure nobody was looking. He posed a little, looking somewhat intimidating with his sword. He heard somebody walking up the stairs and quickly threw his sword down. "Buster, were you ever planning to get going? What are you waiting for? Me to take you? I thought you were too old to be seen in public with your mother," the woman said as she emerged from the staircase. Buster picked up the sword, put it back in a holster on his clothes and rushed downstairs. He ran out the front door and peered at his surroundings outside. It was full of open area. There were a few forests visible, a majestic castle beyond a large ground of trees on a mountain, the fairgrounds, and some stores. Buster apprehensively emerged from the doorway and began to proceed towards the fairgrounds. He figured if he was going to have to be in a strange place, he might as well have some fun. And, the place was seeming less and less strange and seemed just like home, even though in the back of his mind he knew he came from somewhere else. He just didn't know where. Buster walked over the gorgeous green, grassy landscape. It took only a brief walk to reach the fairground. He reached the fairground and saw a plethora of booths, games, activities, and food. He rushed in and looked around. There was so much to do. He looked at all the different activities there were. Buster saw a food stand almost immediately. He saw them serving carrot juice and dashed towards the stand. As he darted through the incredibly crowded fair grounds, he fell flat on his face. He looked over and saw he ran into somebody. "Hey, watch it, bub!" she yelled. A pink rabbit in a white, casual dress and a beautiful silver pendant lying next to her. Buster walked over. She extended her hand to let Buster help her up, but Buster walked past her and picked up the pendant. "This thing could be worth money," Buster said. "Hey, you jerk. Give me that back!!" she yelled. "Oh, sorry. Didn't know it was yours," Buster said. "Yeah, so can you give it back to me now?" she asked. "No. You get up and get it from me," Buster replied. "You're supposed to be a gentleman and help me up!" Buster smirked and nodded his head no. The girl yelled in frustration and got up. "You're not very good at being a gentleman, are you?" she asked in a very annoyed voice. "Why should I be? I don't know you. Say, who are you anyway?" he asked. She frowned and reluctantly said, "Babs Bunny." Buster thought for a moment and wondered why the name sounded so familiar. "I'm Buster Bunny," he replied. "No relation," they both said. They then gave each other a puzzled look and wondered how the other knew that. Buster began to walk away. "Hey, you owe me!" She yelled at him. "Okay, what do you want?" Buster asked. "Well, how about you show me around here. I don't come to this part of town that often," Babs said. She began to follow him. The two walked around the fair grounds. Several white rock pillars, statues, and trees were around on a gray stone ground and opened gates separating segments of the festival. The two decided to take in some of the exhibits. They saw a soda guzzling contest in the far eastern corner. They saw the people taking part. Two people belched at each other after they drank large amounts of soda. "Hey, that looks like fun!" Babs yelled. Buster looked confused. "So now you drop your snob attitude," Buster said. "Shut up and watch me kick these other drinkers butts!!!" Babs exclaimed as she ran over. The reigning champ was her competition. they gave each other cold stares and heard the words, "Ready.....set......go!!!!!! " The two started and Babs got off to any early lead. Buster was realizing why soda drinking was not a spectator sport. Babs was winning, but coughed and slowed down. she lost. "Better luck net time, little girl!" the man said. Babs got an angry look in her face and drew an electronic crossbow from her belt. "Where'd you get that?!?" Buster asked. "Protection, and shutting up idiots," Babs replied. The man was just about wetting himself and said nothing else. The two headed over to a stage near the center of the fair. They saw a woman on the stage, fighting herself and talking to herself. When she began to argue with herself, Buster and Babs began to walk away. "I hate one woman shows," Babs said. Buster nodded in agreement. Somebody ran up to Buster and said, "Your friend, Calamity, has finished his invention. Come and see." Buster shrugged and headed to the north area of the fair. He saw an elaborate setup with heavy machinery and complex - looking electronic devices. Next to Calamity was Wile E. Coyote. Calamity held up a sign saying, "Hey, Buster." Before Buster could reply, Wile E. began to talk. "Hello, simpletons and welcome to my son's and my wonderful invention show. I am super genius Wile E. Coyote and this invention was thought of by me, and I was the brains behind it. Oh, yeah. Calamity did some stuff, too." "I have a question," Buster yelled out. "What?" Wile E. asked, annoyed that somebody interrupted. "What does it do?" Buster asked. "Well.....uh....." Wile started to sweat. He knelt down and asked Calamity what the machine does. Calamity wrote it down and Wile E. read it. "Huh?" Wile E. asked. Calamity hit him over the head with the sign. The device had two identical pods five feet away from each other. One had a switch on the side, and the other had something on top that looked like a satellite dish. Calamity pointed to the pod with the switch. Buster walked up and stood on it. The sign above them said, "Telepod." Calamity pulled the lever. A blue electric burst enveloped Buster. A loud screeching noise and Buster reappeared on the other pod. "Wow! That looks like fun!" Babs exclaimed. She ran over, the pendant around her neck bounding as she walked. "Uh....are you sure you want to try it?" Wile E. asked. "Of course!" Babs replied. "Well, it's just....we don't know if it works ALL the time. And....I don't think you should try it...." Wile E. said nervously. "I'm sick of people telling me what to do. You can't tell me if I can use it or not!!" Babs then ran up to the pod with the switch on it and said, "Hey, you! Throw the switch!!!" She stood, ready to be transported to the other pod. The power came on. It took few seconds, buzzing as it revved up. "Here we go," Buster said. A small electric current pulsated from the base of the pod. It continually increased in size. Babs held her breath a little. An electrical current caught the pendant around her neck and began to glow. A light ring sprung off of it. Then, a double one. More and more flashed off. Nobody knew what was happening. Then, after colors matching the TTA rings exactly came off of the pendant, a white flash of light came off and Babs disappeared, leaving only the pendant remaining on the pod. "What was that?" read a sign Calamity was holding up. "It was the rings around the Tiny Toons logo. Warner Bros. must really be getting cheap with their special effects," Buster commented. Calamity nodded his head. "I'm going after her. Get ready to throw the switch!" Buster proclaimed. Buster then dashed up to the gray pod with the blue floor and yelled, "Go!" The switch was thrown and then the same thing happened. Nobody knew where the two had been transported to, or if they had just disappeared and faded into nothing. This time the pendant went with the transportee. Buster had secured it more tightly than Babs had. It was obviously the key to whatever the machine was doing. Calamity left to decipher another way to create the pendant effect. Wile E. headed home, wanting nothing to do with the possible impending lawsuit that could come from this machine. All the fair was a buzz about this mysterious occurrence. Where had Babs and Buster gone? The answer was one nobody would believe if you told them. Chapter 3: The Queen is Gone The multi-ring shaped portal created opened up on a steep cliff. He looked around and began scaling down the side of the tree - filled mountain side he was on. His descent down the mountain side was quick. He reached the bottom and observed his surroundings. "It looks just like the last place, only older," Buster said. He looked around and said, "I'd better start looking for her." He walked into the cafe in the area. "Hey, anybody seen a girl in a white dress? She's a pink rabbit with purple bows on the end of her ears. Anybody seen her?" Nobody replied. Buster sat down at a brown, wooden table. "My brother's in that army fighting the psychic wizard, Shirley Magus. She can turn you boring with a single blast. Her deadliest attack gives you a sudden urge to watch the Weather Channel!" a man at the table said to Buster. Buster replied with, "What a horrible fate!" The man left and Buster thought to himself, "What's wrong with our writers? This story line is a bit predictable, isn't it? Evil wizard kidnaps damsel in distress? When does this get creative?" A lightning bolt zapped next to him. "I think I should stop making comments about the staff working on this show," Buster said. A man close by said, "Hey, kid. You planning to battle Shirley Magus' army or what? I see that you've got a sword there. Are you a good swordsman?" Buster decided a little white lie would hurt nothing, so he said, "Yeah, I'm an expert." The person said back, "Then you should help up in the battle. Come by the castle later and we'll sign you up to the army." Buster's eyes grew wide and he shouted out, "WHAT? I'm not joining your army!!" The man said to him, "Then that means you're on Magus' side and we'll have to execute you with the guillotine!!!" Buster then said, "Oh, the army is what you want me to join..." Then he let out some nervous laughter and continued with, "I thought you meant the.....uhh.....never mind. I'll be at the castle in two hours." Buster had no plans of sticking around in a strange era, but he thought still having his head attached might help him to get home. Buster asked the question that would make him seem like the stupidest person in the building, "Hey, where am I?" Everybody in the cafe heard. The answers ranged from, "Are you drunk or something." to, "How dumb are you?" Buster looked angrily and exclaimed, "JUST TELL ME WHERE I AM!!!!!!!" The whole place replied, "Acmia Kingdom." Buster then asked, "What year?!?" The whole place burst out in laughter. Buster then mumbled to himself, "Great, I'm in a strange place. What happened to that millennial fair I was at?" The guy next to him said, "Millennial fair? Has Bob been serving alcohol to minors again, or are you just dumb? What nonsense!!!" Buster left, frustrated. He walked into a store adjoining to that facility and yelled out, "What year is it?!?" The building looked frightened. The shop manager said, "Please.....sir.....calm down....it's 600...now leave without hurting anybody..." Buster walked out of the store, stood still for a second and then exclaimed, "What!?! 600?!! AHH!" Then he paused and commented to himself, "Man, I really have to stop these delayed reactions." Outside, he overheard two people talking. "I heard the Queen has finally returned home. It's about time. The King was going nuts!" One person said, "Yeah, I wonder whatever happened to her in the first place. When they try to find out, all she does is ramble on about some millennial fair and something about a creep with blue fur." Buster ran over to them and asked where he could find this person. "She's a Queen, so wouldn't it make sense to look in the castle, smart guy?" the man replied. Buster peered over and saw the castle which looked just like the castle from 1000 A.D. Buster had to head through the dense forest in front of the castle. He entered it and saw the dense foliage and heard a howl. "What was that?" He wondered to himself. He passed over through a few trees and saw three things in the ground. One yelled and showed large white teeth. They were mushrooms looking ready to attack. Buster pulled out the sword he was smart enough to bring with him. He got ready to attack, but tensed up. He got nervous. The animated mushrooms had a chance to attack, but couldn't reach Buster. After a little while, Buster noticed this. He stood back and made faces at the creatures. "Ha ha!" Buster laughed at them. The enemies flashed their large, perfectly white teeth at him. "How do these things get a dentist out here? They're teeth are perfect!" Buster said. He then took the sword and slashed at them. He missed, but they stopped trying to attack. Buster made it through the rest of the forest without anything happening. He arrived and started to push on the gates, but they wouldn't budge. They were large, wooden and full of nails. "Great! How do I open this door? I guess I'll have to use force!" Buster then attempted to plunge his sword into the door. It didn't go, and the force of the swing caused Buster to shake and dent his sword. "Uhh...sir? Look over there," a guard near by said. He looked over and saw a large door with a handle on it that said, "Welcome to Acmia Castle." Buster walked over, turned the brass handle and walked in. A Purple carpet with gold trim sat on the floor and two guards met him at the door. "What do you want shrimp? To beat us up with your bent sword, or are you one of Shirley Magus' troops or something?" The other guard laughed and said, "Hardly. He never would have made the cut. Hey kid. Show us you stamp collection. Ha ha!" Suddenly, from the next room, somebody yelled, "Stop at once!" "Queen Leene!" the two exclaimed. A young woman emerged from two wooden doors up a flight of stairs and said, "This gentleman is an associate of mine." "But there's something odd about him!" one of them said. "You dare to defy me. I'll have your heads for this!!!" she yelled. "Forgive him. He's an idiot!" the other one said. "Duh," the Queen remarked. "Pardon, madam? Duh? I've never heard this before," the first guard said. "Who cares? Shut up and let him through!" she ordered. The two obeyed and Buster was let in. The woman looked oddly familiar. Buster walked up the stone stairs and entered the throne room. As Buster entered the room, the chancellor, who was consulting with King Acmia XXI, left the room, grumbling to himself. The king said, "you, funny looking boy. I heard you saved my beloved Queen Leene." Buster said back, "Huh?" "Well, I must thank you. But, can you tell me what happened to her? She's been saying allot of odd things. she described my crown as "cool" and asked where something called a CD player was. She also seems to know nothing about the coral pin, something she guarded with her life. Can you explain?" Buster shrugged his shoulders and said, "nope, sorry. I don't know what happened, but I'll go talk to her." Buster then began to look around for where this queen might be. "CD player? How would anybody in 600 know about stuff like that?" He asked somebody where the queen would be. "She's up those stairs," the man said. Buster looked over and saw a small staircase. "You mean those?" he asked. "No, right next to those," the man said. Buster glanced over and saw stairs that seemed to go incredibly high into the air. The last stairs he could see were covered over in clouds. "Oh, great," he said. Buster walked over and started walking. Two hours and several large foot pains later he finally made it up. A guard stood there and said, "the queen awaits." Buster asked him, "Hey, how can you stand coming up all these stairs all the time?" The man said, "I usually use the elevator, sir." Buster looked over and saw an elevator. "Now why didn't I notice that before?" Buster walked into the queen's quarters. A maid nearby said, "YOU saved our queen? You don't look tough!" Then Buster said, "I'm tough. I'll beat Shirley Magus' army myself!" The maid smirked and said, "Right." Then she walked over and stomped on his foot. Buster jumped around in pain, holding his foot, and the maid left. "Ah, there you are," the queen said. She was turned facing away from Buster looking at the window. "Come nearer, sir," the Queen said. Buster walked closer. "What's going on?" Still facing the other direction, the Queen said in a very deep voice, "Luke, I am your father. Ha ha ha!" Then she turned around. "Fooled ya', didn't I, Buster?" Buster then looked at her. It was Babs. "It's me! But everyone here calls me Leene!" "I'm so relieved you're here. I needed somebody to show off all this wealth and fame to. And, somehow I knew you'd be foolish enough to follow me here. Thanks for coming." Suddenly, the room darkened, and a spectacular green light flooded in through the windows. "Wh....what's happening? It feels like....I'm being torn apart!!!! Ahh!!!!!!" She screamed and then a brilliant white light poured in. She disappeared, and a librarian reappeared that looked like her. "What happened?" Buster asked. "Nothing. I am feeling fine. Fig bar?" she asked in a monotone voice. "Oh no. What's going on?" Buster then rushed down the elevator. He saw Calamity Coyote at the bottom holding up a sign that said, "Buster, did you find that girl?" Buster replied, saying she's been transformed from herself into a boring librarian. "Just as I thought," a sign Calamity held up read. He then handed Buster a computer print out explanation. Buster read it over. It said that Babs descended from a long line of wacky queens of Acmia, and somebody came to protect her. But, history has changed, and the wacky female leader of Acmia has been mentally reprogrammed to be boring. This causes all of her descendants to be boring as well. The kingdom grows sick of reading, "War and Peace " as a law, and having Al Gore's birthday as a holiday, so they overthrow the kingdom. The queen is kicked out and becomes the boring librarian of Acmia, and so do all people in the family line after that. "Wait, if she came from a line of queens, then doesn't that mean she is really supposed to be...." Calamity then held up a sign that said, "She's really Queen Barbara Anne Bunny." Buster then figured it all out. The real queen was kidnapped for the reprogramming, and when Babs showed up here, they thought she was back and all things returned to normal. The mental reprogramming is successful and all the queens become boring, allowing the royal family to be kicked out and the chancellor's family to take over rule of the kingdom. They knew what they had to do. Save the real queen Leene and return Babs to her normal, comic self. Calamity, armed with a small weapon, joined Crono in his search for Babs. They both had suspicions about the chancellor. They asked around about the chancellor, who mysteriously took off as soon as Buster arrived in the kingdom. When asked about the chancellor, one of the cooks at the castle said, "He's a good man. Why, he goes to the cathedral everyday." The two rushed out of the Kingdom and towards the cathedral to the east. Beyond a lavish green, dense forest to the east was a beautiful cathedral. It had red brick and allot of stain glass on it. The two approached it and heard strange music coming from inside. They came inside and saw several people in odd costumes dancing. They listened for a moment and heard evil, demonic music: disco! "Wow, we must really have come far back in time. This ancient ritual is called disco." Calamity snickered, and one of them turned around angrily. "You laugh at our culture and our customs. We will distroy you!" The woman who talked was old. Maybe 60 yrs. Or so they thought. All the people in the cathedral took of their odd costumes, which consisted of afros and sequin jumpsuits. When they revealed their true forms, it was astonishing. They were actually hideous creatures in fluorescent pink dresses. Buster and Calamity fought them off. Or so they thought. "That was easy," Buster remarked. Just then, they started hearing odd music from behind them. "......burn, baby burn.......disco inferno...." They turned around expecting another fight when they saw somebody break through the door and knock it down with a sword. "Thou art lettest thy guard down and thee lettest thy enemy in to distroyeth....." And then Buster interrupted the newcomer, saying, "Does this have any point, or were you just planning on rambling on in old English for a while?" Buster asked. "Oh, right. Sorry. Thou, my name is Sir Plucky. I have come to rescue thy queen from the perilous clutches of....whoever got her." Buster looked skeptical. "Are you sure we can trust you? You look kinda like those freaks we just beat up," Buster said. "I assure thee, I am not one of those freaks you beat up," Plucky said. He was wearing a green cape with red armor. He had a broad sword in a holster on him. "Thou art look like a creature from the army of thine ultimate evil, Madam Shirley Magus," Plucky said. "Hold on a second," Buster said. He pulled out a blue book with the words, "Script for Chrono Toon " written on it. He flipped through the pages and said, "Just as I feared. Plucky rambles on and on like this for the whole episode." Plucky said, "Now, we must headeth offeth to find the damsel in distress!" Without looking, Plucky stuck his nose high in the air and ended up walking right into the wall at the back of the cathedral. "Maybe you should try finding a door before you go charging through," Buster said. "Oh, great. How am I supposed to save her if we can't even find her?" Plucky asked. Plucky sat down next to the organ and banged his head off the keys. They heard a tune play and suddenly a door opened in the wall. "Maybe you will be helpful after all," Buster said. "You seem to be good at using your head, anyway." The three of them slipped in through the door. They emerged in a room with a series of doors and red carpet lining the whole place. They also saw several disco balls on the ceiling and could hear the same kind of strange chanting as when they encountered the last monsters. "Uhh...Buster. Is this really a good idea?" Plucky asked nervously. "We have to save the kidnapped Queen," Buster said. "Why?" Plucky asked. "I don't know. That just seems to be how this kind of story always goes," Buster replied. They proceeded through the hidden section of the temple until they reached a dead end. "Great, where do we go now?" Buster asked as he stood before a brick wall at the end of the clandestine area of the cathedral. "Oh, greateth!" Plucky exclaimed. "We commeth all this way and thou art becomes lost upon the end of thee cathedral!" Then, Plucky hit his head into the wall, and it opened up. "You must have the hardest head in the world!" Buster said. "Oh, shutteth up," Plucky replied. They walked in and saw the chancellor from before standing behind a desk, with Queen Leene standing there. "Prepare yourself!" The chancellor yelled at the Queen. He then called in a group of lawyers, eighth grade geography teachers and Bill Gates impersonators. Then he pulled out a video tape labeled, "The best of Oprah Winfrey." It was going to be the most horrifically boring display possible, and Buster had to stop it for the future of humor in Acmia. Buster drew his sword, Calamity his small gun, and Plucky a sword. "Thou art gonna be sorry!" Plucky exclaimed. All the boring people summoned by the chancellor ran for their lives. Plucky lept onto the desk and slashed the videotape into small bits. "What are you doing?" The chancellor asked angrily. "We're here to save the Queen's sense of humor!" Buster said vehemently. "I'll show you little punks!" The chancellor yelled. "True form change!!" He began to recite YMCA and suddenly, he became a large yellow mass with an afro that reached seven feet into the air. "This might be the scariest thing I've ever seen," Buster said. "You've seen nothing yet!!" the creature said. The door sprung open and several animate afros slid across the floor. "Wow, I'm soooo scared of thee," Plucky said sarcastically. "What, is thy hair going to beat us up or what? Ha ha ha!" Plucky scoffed at him. The hair showed large, white fangs and growled. "Oh, great. Carnivorous hair pieces!" Buster said. Buster then got an idea. He pulled out a bottle of ACME hair gel, which scared away the afros. "No!! My beautiful children!" The creature exclaimed. Buster then held his sword to the neck of the beast. "What are you gonna do, take my head off?" asked the creature. "No, there are censors watching. I'm just gonna do this," Buster replied, then picked up one of Calamity's signs and hit the beast over the head with it. It knocked him out and Buster took the Queen and began to leave. A murmuring could be heard from a box in the corner. "What was that?" asked Buster. Plucky ran over to the box and opened it. The real chancellor was inside. "It was horrible!! He played disco records all day long!! I'm glad it's over," the real chancellor said. "It was I who has saveth the from thine foe, the evil grip of the evil creature that attacketh thee!" Plucky told him. The chancellor walked over to Buster and quietly asked him, "Is your friend always this melodramatic?" Buster nodded yes. It was true. Whenever Plucky said one of the lines in old English, he over did it by allot. The group of them headed back to Acmia Kingdom. "How can we ever thank you?" the king asked," you saved the Queen twice and exposed the fake chancellor." "We could useth money!" Plucky said. "Shut up!" Buster said. Plucky said, "Looketh, Buster. I'm going to leave. I have disgraced thy kingdom by letting the Queen get captured. Good bye." Plucky then headed out of the castle. "I'm so glad he's gone," Buster said. "Hey, I heardeth that!" Plucky yelled from outside the castle. Calamity and Buster took the elevator upstairs and ran into the room where Babs was to see if they could recover the future. They walked in and saw a white light shimmering in the center of the room. When the light dispersed, Babs was left standing. "What are you all staring at?" Babs asked. "Just tell me one thing: do you have a sudden urge to read the phone book?" Babs replied, "Only if I'm ordering a pizza or something." Buster breathed a sigh of relief. They had prevented the anti-amusement disaster from occurring. At least, this one. "I think we have to go back to our right time now," Babs said. "Sure thing, Babs, or should I say Princess Barbara Anne Bunny?" Babs' face grew read and she yelled angrily," DON'T EVER CALL ME THAT!!!!!!" Buster squirmed a little at the sound of her rage, and then said, "Well, why did you lie about who you were?" "Because I hate titles ( especially my full name ) and plus, would you have shown me around the fair if you knew who I was?" she asked. "Of course I would have shown you around the fair. I just would have made you pay for everything if I knew you were royalty." Babs frowned at Buster, and then the two began to head back to their own time. The reached the mountain where they originally appeared in this era. "So how do we get back?" Buster asked Calamity. Calamity pulled out the time device, flipped a switch and a replica of the rings on the Tiny Toons logo, which Calamity called a gate, opened up. Calamity gave Buster a written explanation about the gates, saying that they could only appear in certain areas. They went through the gates, and they passed through a swirling, colorful, gravity lacking environment which was the inside of the gate. Chapter 4: We're Back The reappeared in the machine at the millennial fair. Nothing seemed to have changed. "I have to return home to modify the telepod," read a sign Calamity Coyote held up. "See ya', Calamity," Buster and Babs said. The two sat there for a few minutes before Babs finally said something. "Well, aren't you going to take me home?" Babs asked. "Yeah, sure," Buster replied. The two left the fair. It seemed to be the same day as when they left for 600 A.D. The two headed to the castle and when they opened the door to the castle, they were immediately intercepted by guards. "Princess Babara Anne Bunny, you've returned!" One guard said. "Don't call me that!!" Babs yelled back. A chancellor, looking suspiciously like the one in 600, said, "So this is the fiend who kidnapped you!" "Kidnapped me?!? What are you talking about?" Babs asked. "Security!! Arrest this man!" The chancellor yelled. "Stop at once. By order of Princess Babs!" They didn't listen. They took Buster to the jail cell. "Buster!" She yelled. Buster didn't react. "I'll see you in a while," Buster said. Babs ran up to her royal chamber. She began to wonder to herself, "Why isn't he taking this seriously? He could be executed....or worse!" Buster sat in his cell awaiting a trial thinking, "This is just one of her jokes." He was wrong. Chapter 5: The trial Buster waited in his cell for a few days, and the feeling of reality began to set in. He knew this was no joke conjured up by Babs in her spare time. It was the real thing. The day of the trial arrived. Buster was brought, handcuffed, into the courtroom. The chancellor introduced Buster's lawyer to him, Concorde Condor. "Could you have stuck me with a worse lawyer? " Buster asked. The chancellor, who assigned the lawyers, laughed. The courtroom had a navy blue floor, a stained glass window at the back, a large area for seating a jury and spectators. Buster was waiting in the court room for the other lawyer to be brought out. The chancellor came out with a suspicious looking lawyer with him. Slicked back black hair that looked like it had more grease than a McDonald's kitchen. A small mustache and stripped blue suit. He looked like a mobster in a bad suit. The lawyer approached Buster at his seat in the courtroom. "I will read off the charges to the court now. Rudeness to a princess. Making a member of the royal family crack a smile. Using a technology and not letting the royal family take credit for it. Distruction of disco hair pieces and accessories. Possession of a large, ugly wig. Associating with a mute coyote. Buster's lawyer, what response do you have to these charges?" Concord replied, "A, hyuk. Nope." Buster covered his eyes. He couldn't bare to watch the proceedings. He began to consider an insanity plea for letting this lawyer represent him. The case continued. "Did Buster kidnap the princess, yes or no?" the lawyer asked. "A, beats me. Don't no. Nope. Nope," Concorde replied. Buster couldn't believe it. He could've done a better job himself. He also thought Plucky would have done a good job at being a lawyer because he was so long winded and with all that old English he would confuse the jury and cause an endless supply of mistrials. After about half an hour, the lawyer began to cross examine Concorde. "Have you ever done anything illegal? Did you attend law school? Do you realize if you didn't that it's a felony and you'll be thrown in jail for the rest of your life? Are you in this country legally?" Concorde, knowing nothing about legal process, did nothing to object this questioning. He just kept stuttering and not giving any real answers, so he left the courtroom screaming. The lawyer smirked. The case ended about an hour after it started. The jury found him guilty, and Buster was handcuffed again. Babs rushed in through the door. "Stop!" She yelled. "Sorry, hon, but this is way more important than you," The chancellor said. Babs yelled in frustration as Buster was dragged away. "Hey, watch the ears!" Buster said as they pulled him across the floor. Within a few minutes, Buster was inside a prison cell. Next to him was a tin cup with some water inside of it. He poured a little of the water on the floor. It began to glow green. "Hmm. Usually when the water looks like nuclear waste it's a good idea not to drink it," Buster said. Buster looked beyond the cold steel bars sealing off the cell from the rest of the prison confine. He saw two guards standing there. "Warner Bros. must be paying millions for extras to play all these guards," Buster said quietly. One of them must have heard him, because he yelled in, "Hey, shut up! We aren't extras!" Buster thought that this one must be kinda irritable. He got an idea. He ran over to the tin cup and back to the bars. He began hitting off the steel and singing out of tune. "You moron! You're to inept to even annoy a guard properly. Here, I'll show ya how it's done," the hypercritical guard said. He then unlocked and opened the cell door. He took the cup from Buster and started hitting it off the wall. "You got that?" the one guard asked. "Not quite. Maybe if you demonstrate with your other guard over there," Buster said. He called the other one over and they both started hitting the wall. As they were doing this, they were too distracted to notice Buster slipping out the door. "Heh heh heh. What morons," Buster muttered to himself as he walked out. To his pleasant suprise, there was almost zero security around. In one room he passed through, a bunch of inmates were throwing a party. They sprayed champagne everywhere and shot off fireworks. A few stole guards uniforms. All the cells were unlocked, with only a sign there saying, "Please don't escape without the express written permission of the king - signed, the management." "Minimum security wing," Buster said. He walked through, avoiding the drunk people and other various inmates who fell down. The exit was in sight now. He had stepped outside and across a blue stone bridge was an entrance back into the castle, where the prison was attached. As Buster began to cross to freedom, a sound came from above him. It was an ACME helicopter, piloted by Calamity. "Calamity, you showed up!" Buster said. Calamity was losing control of the helicopter. He crashed it into the side, but he was okay. Just a lot of black soot and was a little beat up. Nothing he'd never felt falling off a cliff before. The two of them began to run when they heard somebody yell, "There he is!! Get him!!!!" Buster and Calamity looked over to see that it was the chancellor and a few more guards. "You didn't think you'd get past me that easily!" The chancellor said, "Get the dragon tank!" Suddenly, a large metallic dragon appeared out of nowhere. "Ha ha ha!" Buster and Calamity both tried to hit it to no avail. "How do we kill it?" said a sign that Calamity held up. Buster got an idea. "I know. Hold on a second." Buster ran back into the prison area, and he heard a person in a cell groaning immensely in pain. "Did you drink any of that water?" Buster asked. The person nodded yes. "Were you planning to finish it?" The person screamed and handed over the cup. Buster rushed back upstairs. He threw the cup full of water onto the dragon tank. "No!! Not the water!! Fix the tank!!!" The chancellor yelled. Him and three guards began to run towards the tank, but Buster tripped them and they all fell into the hole created by the crash of the helicopter. They were hanging there now, gripping each other for dear life, making a perfect bridge over the hole. Buster walked over them towards the door, but paused for a moment. "So, chancellor, you can't move can you?" He yelled up scornfully, "Don't think you've won yet!" Buster laughed. He grabbed a feather and began tickling the chancellor's nose. "Stop....ha ha.....that.....ha ha....or...ha ha.....I'm going to....ha ha ha...fall to my doom....ha ha ha...." the chancellor said. Buster stood over him, staring, hoping he might fall, but eventually, he left. When he and Calamity got inside the castle, they were met with an onslaught of security. Buster and Calamity made a run for the door, but were trapped. Just then, Babs came in. "Stop right now!" Babs yelled. Just then, the chancellor made another appearance. "Don't listen to her! Listen to King Acmia!" The chancellor said. The King said, "Barbara Anne, you have to follow the rules that come with being royalty. No having fun. No friends. Nothing." Babs said, "Don't call me by my full name!!!!! And, I don't have to listen to you!!! I'm leaving!!!" Babs then headed for the door with Calamity and Buster. They ran into the forest outside the castle ( it was the same as in 600 A.D. ) and headed left while the guards persued them. As they ran, Calamity tripped over a rock. "Oh no, what are we going to do?" Babs asked. Calamity picked up the gate opening device, which got jarred loose when he fell, and pressed a switch on it. A gate opened and they were pulled through. "They just.....disappeared!" the chancellor exclaimed. Without any explanation they were gone. The chancellor couldn't explain how he let them get away. Chapter 6: Beyond the Ruins The gate opened up inside a small room. The three of them fell about six feet to the ground. "Oww! Calamity, can't you do something about the landings?" Babs asked. Calamity held up a sign that said, "No." Buster looked around. "Hey, where are we?" Buster asked. He looked at the walls. they were made of a kind of metal they'd never seen before. Calamity held up his watch. Under year it read " 2300 A.D. " "Wow! We've gone to the future! Let's see how advanced everything turned out!" Babs said excitedly. They all rushed for the door. Their excitement quickly turned to a depressing awe. They stepped outside and saw a vast wasteland. Sands blew everywhere. No sunlight was making it through. A few domes could be seen, as well as the remains of what used to be civilization. "I guess that Y2K thing did more damage than we thought," Buster said. The three began to head for a dome in the south. Maybe they would find somebody alive. They didn't know what happened between 1000 and 2300 to do all this. The three headed across the dark, desolate wasteland and reached a dome in the south with a big sign outside that said, "Party Dome." "Party dome? This sounds promising," Babs said. The three opened the door and saw a room with no light and several tired, hungry and sick people scattering the floor. "Wow, talk about false advertising!" Babs remarked. The three walked around the dome and discovered most of the people were alive. "Hey, what happened?" Buster asked. A man with a brown, torn up and dirty robe looked up from the ground and said, "Where have you been the last three hundred years? The world as we knew it was torn apart." "By what?" Buster asked. "I can't really explain it," the man replied. Babs asked him, "Hey, why do you call this place the Party Dome?" "It stands for Painful Anguishing Ransacked Torn Yielded dome," the man replied. "Ohh. Lively," Babs said sarcastically. "So what do you do all day?" Buster asked. " Sit here and discuss poetry," the man said. "Ugh. How awful," Buster said. "What do you do for food? I don't see anything to eat around here," Babs asked. "We use that over there," the man said, pointing to a machine in the corner, "it has two flavors. Mush and gruel. Gruel is a special treat." Buster, Babs and Calamity all consulted in the corner, where the people in the dome couldn't hear them. "You guys, we have to do something about this," Babs said. "I think we were better off in 1000 A.D. where the whole Kingdom wanted to kill us," Buster said. "Well, maybe if we went to another time and brought them some food. Or found another gate and find out what happened," Babs suggested. "All right, let's start looking for other gates in some of the other domes," Buster said. The device Calamity invented to open the gates could also detect them, so they would know if they came across one. They all decided to leave the gates and risk crossing the ruins to find another gate. The group stepped back outside the dome, the sands and wind blowing ion their faces. It was frigid cold outside with no sunlight getting through. There was also no way to tell what time it was. They passed through an area full of old metal and broken machines to the north. "Hey, look at all this stuff. It must have been great while it worked," Babs said. "For all we know it was programmed to kill people," Buster replied. They heard a whirring sound coming from a little ways away. "What was that?" Babs asked. All three of them looked over and saw several light blue robots with one long eye and some yellow lines on them coming towards them. "Uh, I think it was those, Babs," Buster said. "Well, what do we do about them.?" Calamity held up a sign that said, "Run!" They all complied with the sign. They ran away from the robots, who gave chase. By the time they cut off their pursuit, the three of them had ended up in front of another dome. "Look, another dome," Babs said. There was no sign on this one. The three of them walked inside and saw almost the same thing as the last dome. "Wow, another party central," Babs said sarcastically. All the people were huddled around. "How did you people get here?" one person asked. "We just crossed the ruins over there," Babs said. "Wow, some people actually crossed the ruins!" A man yelled. Within seconds the entire population of the dome was crowded around. "I've got some bad news," one person said, "our food machine is still broken and the guy we sent to the basement hasn't returned with the food yet." Buster and Babs looked over and saw an opening in the ground, and they saw a ladder leading into a dark basement. "We'll go in there and get your food," Babs said. "We will?" Buster asked. "Yes," Babs said and she hit Buster in the head a little. "Ow, fine we'll go down there," Buster said. The three of them proceeded down into the bottom of the dome. "Yikes, it reeks down here," Babs said. "This smells worse than Elmur Fudd's class," Buster said. "Who?" asked Babs. "Never mind. It would take too long to explain," Buster replied. She shrugged her shoulders and they kept moving on. They saw a door at the end of a long, dark and narrow hallway. "The food must be behind there, you guys," Babs said. They walked in and suddenly a security alarm began blaring. "Warning! Intruders!" the security system said. "Hey, who're you talking to? Nobody's around to hear you," Buster said to the security system. "Okay, the stress of having to save all these people from starvation must really be getting to you, Buster. You're talking to a security system," Babs said. "Just look," Buster said. The device seemed confused. "You see, if devices really have advanced this far, then they'd also have to be smarter. Smart enough to realize it's a waste of energy to call for help if nobody's gonna hear you," Buster pointed out. They were headed through the next door when the security system fired off a shot. It hit Calamity, singing him from head to toe. "Ow!" said a sign Calamity held up. Buster drew his sword. "What are you going to do? Slice up the security system's weapons?" asked Babs. "No," Buster said. He walked over to the wall and swiped at it, then pulled a switch. "Why not just shut off the power?" He asked. The system shut down immediately. Finally, they made it to the food storage area. Or, what's left of it anyways. "Peew. this reeks worse than the rest of this place," Babs remarked. Looking around in the cold, dark and desolate room, they saw a substantial amount of rotted food, and one dead body. "Well, that explains everything. Why there's no food. Why that guy never returned. Everything except for what happened to this place," Buster said. They looked around for any salvageable items to return to the main floor. All they found was one lowly seed. "Wow. A seed. We went all the way down here for a seed," Babs said sarcastically. "Well, maybe it could frow here," Buster said optimistically. "Right. You mean from the wonderful sunlight rays coming through the never ending cloud cover and sub freezing temps or off the fine cuisine the people here enjoy?" Babs said, killing any optimism. They took it anyway. At least it was something. Then, they decided to head out. On their way back to the exit, they flipped the power back on. A noise came from the wall next to them. "What was that?" asked Babs. "I don't know. It's too dark. I can't see a thing down here!" Buster said. Calamity walked over to the wall and suddenly all the lights turned on. "Wow, Calamity, how'd you do that?" Buster asked. He pointed to the light switch on the wall. Buster frowned. On the wall was a computer with a flat screen and control panel. Calamity walked over and it turned on. "Let me guess, another on switch?" Babs asked. Calamity nodded his head no and pointed to several switches and dials on the wall. As the computer loaded, a sign came on saying, "Windows 2300." "In all this, Bill Gates is still making money off the same thing," Buster groaned. A small sign on the side said Intel Pentium 45, 45000 MHz. It turned on and played a video clip immediately. It said, "Record of the Day of Cencos." "What's a Cencos?" Buster asked. Babs, sitting with a bag of popcorn said, "Would you shut up? I'm trying to watch the movie!" It began with a shot of 1999. 1999 was still the future in the dimension where Buster ended up when he fell down that burrow. Several domes, like the ones here, only not partially distroyed, were shown. Large expanses of highway and high tech buildings and vehicles flashed across the screen. A loud rumbling sound began. A small hole in downtown Acmia was opened. A voice yelled from below, "This area does not promote educational T.V. or PROPER VIEWING HABITS!!!!!!" Then, as if out of nowhere, a hideous, disgusting, appalling creature emerged from the merky, hot depths of the Earth: The T.V. Censor woman! "I am Cencos and you will submit to QUALITY PROGRAMMING!!! HA HA HA!!" The people all screamed in horror. Buster, while watching the video said, "Oh no. This woman came to wipe all good T.V. off the face of the map." A man in the video yelled, "Never!!! We'll never watch your quality, educational programming!!" The woman let off a demonic laugh and said, "Then you will suffer like the young minds of America!!" Then, the visions began in all the heads of the people of the world. Some were forced to read the names in the phone book and memorize them. Others had to watch "Quality " television all day. It drove the population mad. The first thing Cencos wanted to go in the raid against real entertainment by this vile creature was Tiny Toons. That alone drove most of the population to the brink of insanity. People tried to distroy the vile fiend as it distorted the television waves with explosives and firearms, but nothing worked. And, to make things worse, they ended up blowing most things to smithereens. The giant censorship monster began to trample entire cities. "Die, entertainment, die!" She cried as she went. She reached the Warner Bros. Lot, where certain people had no idea what was going on. "Hey, what's up, Doc?" Bugs said as the forty foot overcast shadow came over the area. The giant creature gave off a growl and trampled Bugs. Or so Cencos thought. Bugs wasn't distroyed, though. Nobody knew what happened to him after he ducked and avoided certain doom. Most of the original Loony Toons cast were moribund. Cencos, armed with tape after tape of warm, educational family T.V. and other vast forms of demonic powers, would attack their WB luxury suites first. Next came the Animaniacs. "He he he," she laughed and then stomped them over and over again. To finish them, an anvil storm flew from the sky to wipe them off the face of the Earth. "It's the end of the world!" Yakko cried. These were his last words as Cencos distroyed him and the rest of the cast of Animaniacs. The anvils ( yes, she did realize the irony in the most commonly used WB gag to distroy them ) ripped through the water tower hideout of the Animaniacs faster than the iceberg through the Titanic. It toppled to the ground with almost nothing left of it. It was in ashes. Slappy was next to meet her ill - fated demise. Her tree residence was quickly scorched. The Brain, while attempting to figure out what to do to escape, was blown up along with Pinky. It was Armageddon on the Warner lot. Steven Spielberg was nowhere to be seen ( rumor had it he finally realized they should make new episodes of Tiny Toons and he went to work on them ) and it was like a nuclear warzone. Why all the Distruction only to control the airwaves? Warner Bros. would keep her from this control, and the rest of the world chose to fight rather than lose all entertainment. It was their choice, but the world would pay for it. Within an hour, the Warner Bros. studio was gone and took all characters and shows, except Tiny Toons, with it. The cast of Tiny Toons was spared to this point. "Now to distroy the real threat to boring, non - entertaining programming!" She looked all over for the cast of Tiny Toons, who she thought was the biggest threat to her new world plan. But, they were nowhere to be found. The lot was wrecked. The whole world was trampled. Some entire continents couldn't withstand even being stood on by the villainous Cencos. They sunk immediately. The video ended. All three people stood there, stunned. "I'm really glad we missed it when that happened," Babs said. Buster nodded in agreement. Dispite not knowing of Tiny Toons, they all knew they were toons as opposed to humans, and that this being was clearly out to wipe all toons of the face of the planet. But, neither Buster, Babs or Calamity made any mention of Tiny Toons. Nobody seemed to know where they all actually came from. They would all remember soon enough, but for now, they were caught up in this world. A scorched Earth to correct. Several cameos still to encounter, and a very long way to go. After this video, the group emerged out of the basement of the dome. "Did you find anything?" Doan, the head of the dome asked. "Just this," Babs responded. She handed him a seed. "Do you really think It'll grow in a place like this?" Doan asked. "You have to try," Buster said. They decided to plant it. Buster, Babs and Calamity all left. They headed south and found the Ham dome. "What do you suppose we'll find in there?" Babs asked. " I don't know, but I suppose we should look. They entered another bland looking dome. "This era really needs a new decorator," Babs commented. Buster nodded in agreement. They went inside and saw a broken machine with a person - like shape in the corner. "What's this?" Babs asked looking on it. It had a pig's face, a metallic body, and a helmet. It didn't seem to be working. Calamity walked over to it, and held up a sign saying, "It's a beat up humanoid robot." Buster and Babs exchanged confused glances. "I can fix it!" said another sign from Calamity. "Are you nuts?!? It might attack us!" Babs pointed out. Calamity nodded his head no. "I'll re-program it," stated another sign from Calamity. Calamity got to work on it. How he knew how to fix something 300 years in the future was beyond everyone else. "It's fixed," explained Calamity via writing. They turned it on. It started to whir and some sparks flew. "Good morning," Babs said to it. It's arm spun and turned into something. "He's got a gun!" Babs exclaimed. The three got scared, but upon closer inspection, it was a vacuum. "Good morning, what is your command. I'm your Robo - maid," it said. "Nice going, Calamity. What do we need with a cleaning bot?" Babs asked. "This is Babs, I'm Buster, and that is Calamity. He repaired you," Buster said. "Understood. Mr. Calamity repaired me," the robot said. " Calamity will do," a sign read from Calamity. "Impossible, sir. That would be rude. Now, what do you need cleaned?" the robot asked. "I hate formal titles," Calamity explained it writing. "Me too," Babs said. "Yeah, Princess Barbara Anne," Buster said, snickering. Babs scowled at him. "Don't call me that. You either, metal head, or you'll be shut off like that," Babs said angrily. "I think he needs a name," Babs suggested. "Name? Uh...my serial number is R66-Y44WB544120," the robot explained. "Isn't that good enough?" Babs said, "No way. You need a real name. How about....uh....Hamton?" she suggested. Hamton agreed. " I am Hamton. Data storage complete," Hamton said. "You know, we really need to liven this guy up," Buster said. "Hey, Hammy, why aren't there any people here?" Buster asked. "Who?" Hamton asked. "Hammy.....it's just a different way to say Hamton. Just answer the question," Buster said. "I don't know. There used to be people here. I'll tell you, cleaning up the dust in a sunless, heatless scorched world is not an easy task. And talk about hard, try finding dust remover, and...." "Uh, never mind!" Babs said, interrupting him. "How'd you guys get here?" Hamton asked. "We came from a time warp in 1000 A.D," Babs said. "We found you while looking for a gate out of here." There was a door behind Hamton, but it was locked. "There's a door behind you we can't open. You think you could help us out?" Buster asked. Hamton walked over to it and drew a mop. "It's stuck. The computer control for it has something sticky spilled on it. I'm out of Mr. Clean, so I can't do anything about it," Hamton said. "If we go to the janitor dome to the north, we can find the cleaning supplies." "You'd go to get if for us?" Babs asked, optimistically. "You think I'm insane? You're coming with me," Hamton said. "Darn, I was hoping he'd fall for that," Babs said quietly. "Somebody has to stay behind," Hamton said. "Why?" Babs asked. "Because some Robots are slobs, and we have to make sure we get it open as soon as we can scrub the computer control," Hamton said. They all agreed Calamity would stay back ( except for Calamity, of course ). Chapter 7: The Factory ruins Hamton, Buster and Babs headed north to the Janitor dome. They got inside and a voice said, "Identification, please." Hamton drew a broom, and it was scanned by a computer on the wall. It had an I.D. number on it, and a small ring proved the acceptance by the I.D. checker. All of them headed inside. Several closets were locked. "How many different cleaning devices do you need in here?" Babs asked. "We need to be ready for anything," Hamton replied. They tried opening up the closets, but they were locked. "There's another computer around here somewhere. Let's look around," Hamton suggested. This whole dome was suprisingly untouched. I guess Cencos must've thought that this placed posed absolutely no threat to her idea of a boring, monotone existence ( which was true. It didn't ). "I can't wait to see what I'll find in all these cleaning closets!" Hamton said in anticipation of undoing the locks. Babs gave him a strange look. They headed through the expansive, heavily maintained and very neat and clean dome. Finally, the three reached the control panel. Hamton pulled the switch and an alarm sounded. "Warning! Security system gone haywire! Cleanliness breach! Shutting down immediately!!!" The three began to rush out of there. "What's going on?" shouted Babs. "I don't know. It must've detected excessive dirt!" Hamton replied. Red lights flashed everywhere, as the three ran as quickly as possible. On their way out, they were intercepted by several purple versions of Hamton, only without the pig faces. "Distroy the dirt bringers," they cried. "No, you can't. these are my friends!" Hamton said. They pushed him to the floor. "What are you doing?" Hamton asked. "You're defective. You're associating with the unclean ones. They bring dirt and germs," the robot said. "What're you talking about?" asked Hamton. "You're malfunctioning!" They shouted. "I am?" asked Hamton. "Affirmative," they all replied. "A defect.....I'm a defect..." Hamton said in a low, depressed voice. "Have you forgotten our mission? Distroy dirt and dust at all costs," one robot said. "You shame us. You must be distroyed!" another cried out. They all pounced on him and began to attack. "Come on, Buster. Hamton's getting whipped out there!" The two rushed over to help, but Hamton said to them, "No, stop. These are my brothers." "Talk about a dysfunctional family," Babs remarked. The other robots once again commenced a brutal assault. There was nothing Buster or Babs could do. Finally, they threw him down a chute labeled, "Laundry Shaft." "Hamton!" Babs yelled. "Now to take care of intruders," one said. They all pulled electric mops from their arms and began their clean/attack sequence. "You cocky boxes of bolts! You'll never get away with this!" Babs said. Buster picked up his sword and pried up a piece of the floor panel. Below the dome was the outside, with dirt on the ground. Buster and Babs exploited their biggest fear: being messy. Instead of throwing at them, they threw it on the walls. The robots overloaded trying to clean it fast and exploded. Babs rushed over to the laundry chute and yelled down, "Hamton!" Hamton was able to make it back up, but he was trashed. "What do we do? Hamton got creamed!" Babs stated. They decided to take him back to Calamity. They dragged the body back over the ruins. "Can you repair me?" Hamton asked while Calamity opened him up. Calamity said nothing. "You're trying to save our world, aren't you?" Hamton asked. "I don't know how far we'll get, but that's the plan," Babs said. "What're you going to do after you get fixed?" asked Babs. "Plans for the future?" Hamton asked. Babs came over, this time in an Ed MacMahon costume, saying,"This is the lifestyles of the rich and robotic. Tell me old chap, what plans do you have for the future?" She asked in her best Ed impression voice. "I don't know. I guess go with you guys," Hamton said. "Mahvaloues!" Babs commented," I wish you metallic wishes and cybernetic dreams." The next day, Hamton was all done being fixed up. " Wow, Calamity, you're amazing!" Babs commented. Calamity located the gate. On their way there, they encountered a large stretch of highway. "What do we do here?" Buster asked. robots came out and surrounded them. "Great, there's a bunch of them!" Buster exclaimed. Just then, they heard, "Beep, beep." " It's....the BIRD!!!!" they all yelled simultaneously. Beeper, wearing black sunglasses and a blue jacket came out. "Beep Beep!" He said. Hamton translated. "He says if you want to make it across, you have to race me, on that bike over there." The four of them looked over and saw a run down tricycle. "Oh, great!" Buster said. they all got ready to race. Beeper got off to a dominating start, Beeping at them in his most mocking tone. "Is he laughing at us?" Babs asked. "It's best if I don't translate what he said!" Hamton replied. Beeper was inches from the finish line, and the four of them were inches from the starting line. "I have an idea!" Hamton said. He fired off soapy water towards the finish line. Beeper slipped, fell off the track, and the four just walked the distance of the highway. There, they found a gate. "Hang on to your shorts, cuz' here we go!" Babs exclaimed. "Uh, Babs? Most of us aren't wearing any," Buster pointed out. Calamity opened the gate, and the ground was teleoprted through. Chapter 8: The end of time They appeared again in a room with a bridge attached. It has wooden fences around and blue and black clouds floating around. "Where are we?" Hamton asked, cowering away. "Calm down. I see somebody over there. Let's ask him," Buster said. "Ah, guests," the old man in the room said. "What do you mean guests? And where exactly are we?" Babs asked. "Why, the end of time, of course!" the old man said. "Oh, of course, the end of time. How silly of me," Babs said sarcastically. "All time travelers wind up here. Now, where are you from?" he asked in a shrill voice. "We're from Acmia Kingdom, 1000 A.D.," Buster said. "I'm from 2300," Hamton said. "When four or more beings step into a time warp, the conservation of time theorem states that they will turn up at the space time coordinates of least resistance. Here." Babs looked confused, as did the rest of them but Hamton. "Disturbances in the space time continuum," the aged man continued, "have been happening a lot lately. Far too many folks just pop in here everyday. I fear something is wrong with the very fabric of time." "Which means one of us has to stay here," Buster said. They all pointed at Calamity, who didn't want to travel in time anymore anyway. Large pillars of light acted as gates in this room, so any time could be accessed. The old man looked at Buster. "I know you from somewhere," he said. "Where?" Buster asked. "All of you. you're from Acme Acres, 1990. Buster, you left there just hours before the coming of Cencos, the evil T.V. censor would've distroyed you!" The old man said. "Wow. What did I do there?" Buster asked. The old man said, "Don't remember, eh Doc? Well, we can fix that!" He hit Buster over the head with his short, wooden cane. "Remember anything?" he asked. Buster remembered the beautiful realm of Acme Acres. He remembered Tiny Toon Adventures. He knew, but nobody else did. The old man called him over. "Listen, Buster. Keep a lid on things. You've all ended up here for a reason. You know what's going on but nobody else does. Keep it that way. If you can fix everything, then everyone will return to normal in your REAL time, 1999. But, if not, then the entire cast of Tiny Toons will be stuck flipping through time periods and making bad cameos," the old man told him in secrecy. Bugs went on to explain to him that when Buster jumped into the gate in 1999, the whole Tiny Toons cast was spared for a reason. And now Buster knew what that was. The group of them was about ready to leave, when the old man yelled to them, "Hey! Don't be in such a rush to leave. Speak to the man...er....um..thing in the room behind me." Buster shrugged his shoulders and led Hamton and Babs into the room. In the middle of the room was Gogo Dodo. "Greetings, time travelers," Gogo said greeting them. Babs squinted her eye and asked, "What exactly is it?" Buster replied, "It's a dodo." "Those are extinct," Babs replied. "Well, talk to it!" Buster instructed. Babs walked over and began talking. "So...uh...thing....say, what exactly are you anyway?" "Like your blue friend over there said," Gogo replied," I'm a Dodo. The last one." Gogo was sitting in the middle of a dark room with a brown stone floor and just pitch black around it. A very dismal place. "So, why did we have to come in here?" asked Babs. "Well, if you must know, to defeat Cencos, you need REAL tooniness. Like this," Gogo said as he walked up to Buster and hit him over the head with a hammer. "See? He got hurt. Real Toons aren't supposed to have that happen. Example," Gogo said, doing the same thing to himself with the large wooden hammer, only he split into a bunch of smaller Gogo's. "See? You need this kind of power to beat Cencos. Here, let me give it to you!" Gogo said. The room lit up. Suddenly, they all felt as if they could fall off cliffs or get slammed into the wall and nothing would happen. Gogo said, "Want to try it out?" "How?" Buster asked. "On me, of course." "You're just a little thing though," Babs said. "Try it," Gogo instructed. They finally agreed. "Before we start, you each posses a special kind of toony power, and as you get stronger, they'll get better. Buster, you're lightning. Babs, your water. Hamton.....you're wind," Gogo told them. "Why am I wind?" Hamton asked. "Because that's the only thing associated with a vacuum cleaner I could come up with," Gogo said. They finally began. Buster tried out his new lightning ability. A small jolt of static electricity came out of his finger. "Joy. What unimaginable power," Buster commented sarcastically. Hamton tried wind. All that happened was a small dust buster came out of his hand and pulled the umbrella off Gogo's head. "I'll thank you to leave that alone!" Gogo said. He then came over to Hamton and ripped it off the end of the dust buster. "Come on, you guys. We should be able to tear apart this pip-squeak!" Babs said. Gogo smirked and watching seconds, he was forty feet high. "This is what happens when you actually learn to use this stuff," Gogo said. Buster walked over to Gogo and hit him with the end of his sword. Gogo shrunk back to size. "Now you're getting somewhere," Gogo said. "Hey, what time is it?" Babs asked. Gogo showed his watch spinning around quickly. He pulled out another one with ice covering the face. "Hmm. My watch is frozen," Gogo commented. Finally, he pulled out a third one, which didn't move at all. He opened up the back and saw a little headstone inside. "Dead battery," Gogo commented. The three left the room and went back to the old man. "I know you kids must be itching' to rip back and forth through time, but you have to go back to 1000 AD. The longer you're here, the more you're going to get on my nerves....uh. I meant the less chance you have of fixin' the past. See ya," The old man said. "Is it just me," Babs began, "or is that old guy's voice REALLY familiar?" Buster said back," I think I've heard it before. I wonder where..." They walked over to the glowing pillars in the corner. The one with 1000 A.D. written next to it was the one Hamton, Buster and Babs exited the end of time in. This gate was not as smooth a ride as the others. They bounced back and forth off objects from different eras. Through this gate they saw Elvis float by. "Hey, aren't you supposed to be dead?" Buster asked. "Like anybody ever believed that I was dead," Elvis replied. Buster just kept on floating away with the others in the gate. Elvis said, "Thank you. Thank you very much," as the toons headed for the year 1000. The three of them were dropped about ten feet to the ground when the portal opened. Chapter 9: The village of Loons "Ow," Babs remarked. The three of them pulled them selves off the ground and surveyed the area they appeared in. It wasn't Acmia. "Where are we?" Buster asked. "The Village of Loons," Babs replied, "this whole place went to war with Acmia in 600 AD under the control of Shirley Magus. They lost, and now they worship her and her servant, Fowlmouth Ozzie." The three of them walked through the town. It had lavish green tress, beautiful grass, a monument to Shirley Magus in the center, a few clouds drifting by overhead and somehow it still had an eerie feeling to it. The three of them were approached by two Loon residence. "Like, listen here dudes. The people here like totally hate Toons, so like watch your backs, 'k?" Buster nodded yes, and the Loons left. "Why did they want to help us? Loons hate Toons," Babs said. "And more importantly, why did they talk like that?" Buster asked. Hamton offered a reply. " According to my computer records, their leader Shirley Magus made that the official language of the Loon people," Hamton said. "Well, I'm not talking like any airhead," Babs said. All the Loon people had long hair, talked like airheads, and were taught about Auras, previous lives and other supernatural stuff. All by the order of their leader 400 years ago. "Look Babs, we can blend in if we just talk like them," Buster said. Hamton interrupted, "Hey. You know that stuff Gogo taught us? Well, according to my data banks, all Toons lost these powers, but Loons still posses it, because Shirley Magus revived this art." "So, if they know we're toons, we get fried," Buster said. "I'm not giving up my self-respect and dignity to look like one of these freaks!" Babs exclaimed. "Well, even if you did, our hair isn't exactly Loon regulation." The three got wigs. Buster had a large purple wig, Babs got a yellow one, and Hamton put a feather duster on his head. "Okay, now we'll look and sound dumb," Babs said. The two people who talked to them before came back to talk to them. "Hey, like what's up, you guys? Nice duds. There is like this total freak in the south. He's like a toon like you guys. You should totally talk to him and some junk!" The Loon said. They entered an item store to buy supplies. "Like, we totally need supplies and some junk!" Babs said, sounding a lot like Shirley. "For sure!" The clerk said. She handed her the list of what they had. They bought a few necessities: Food, water, Babs got make-up, Hamton bought Mr. Clean. They then walked to the south and found the hut of Dizzy the Weaponsmith. "I've got a bad feeling about this. Something tells me that somebody who's dizzy shouldn't be using too many weapons," Babs said. They walked in anyway. They saw a purple hairy thing in the corner chomping down a sword. He had a dark blue hat on and swords all over the room. "Mmm. Guests!" he exclaimed. " Me sell you weapon?" he asked. "Uhhh. no thanks," Buster replied. "You no buy weapon, Dizzy get angry! Very angry!" His eyes began to look furious. "Okay, settle down. I"ll but a weapon from you," Buster said. Buster pulled out his wallet and pulled out a handful of money and handed it to Dizzy. He noticed something. The money in the wallet wasn't depleting at all. It remained full. "Babs, check this out!" Buster yelled to her. "Wow, that's amazing!" Babs said after a demonstration. They also noticed something else about the never ending currency: it all had pictures of Gogo on it. "Well, not too many other people are going to accept this money, so we might as well buy a lot here," Buster said. They all bought upgrades for their current weapons, except Hamton who couldn't find a cleaning store. "Dizzy happy you buy weapons," Dizzy said, and he whirled around the room in a tornado. "Now that's a vacuum cleaner!" Hamton exclaimed. They three of them exited the building. Nearby, a huge cave was carved in the face of a mountain, with a small wooden sign next to it with the words, "Hiccups lair. Stay out!" painted on black paint. "You think we should go in there?" Babs asked. "Look at the alternative," Buster said. Somebody had told that they were Toons, and a mob it was beginning to gather to get them. They all elected for the cave. They walked in and heard a faint sound of Hick ups in the distance. The cave itself was maybe 7 ft. high, with torches all over the wall, a wet ground and water dripping from the ceiling. "Wow, all the conveniences of home," Babs said sarcastically. They headed through the first door within the cave and saw a stream. "We might as well jump in. We don't want to hang around these Loons too long," Buster said. Before they could jump in, one giant hiccup rattled the whole place. "What was that?" Babs asked frantically. It caused a cave in, covering this area of the stream. A giant blue creature with long, yellow, pointed claws came down from a hole he hick upped in the ceiling. "Die...*hick*......Loon......*hick*.....enemies!" It yelled. It then trampled over Buster, leaving him as flat as a pancake. "Ow," Buster said very calmly. Buster popped back up immediately. He walked over and hit the creature over the head with the butt of his sword, making it dizzy and confused. "Buster, how come you never use the blade of your sword?" Babs asked. "Because the censors are watching," Buster replied. Hamton used his wet/dry vacuum power to pull water from the few cracks that still reached the stream below, pulled up ice cold, dirty water and sprayed him with it. It seemed to be fazed. The three were about to pass by when it re-gained it's senses. "Thunder HICKUP!" It exclaimed. It Hick upped loud enough to cause the whole cave to collapse. Buster, Babs and Hamton were caught under the pile of rubble, with just the ends of their mouths sticking out. "Babs, don't you think he should move all these rocks off of us?" Buster asked. "Yeah, in a minute. I haven't slept in days," she said. Buster pulled the rocks off him, as did the other two. One of the rocks Buster threw off himself made a crack in the ground near where the mountain used to be. The stream still flowed below it. Just before they were going to leap, Hamton said something, "Shirley Magus, according to my memory banks, created Cencos is the middle ages to control all entertainment and therefore the minds of everyone. We could use the gate at the fairground to get to the middle ages and find her!" Hamton suggested. "Come on, guys!" Babs said. They all lept in as the Loon mob approached. They were carried down stream towards Acmia, bumping into rock after rock on the way. They finally ended up in Acmia near the fairground. The three plowed through, knocking down the costumed racers and several booths. The tiger display booth was unfortunately one of the ones knocked down. The animals were about to pounce when they suddenly heard somebody say, "Here kitty wiities!" They all ran back to their cages. Buster, Babs and Hamton climbed back on the metal Telepod with the blue bottom, pulled the switch, and were back on their way to 600 A.D. Chapter 10: The hero appears! They appeared on the Cliffside of 600 A.D. in Acmia. They plummeted a few hundred feet before landing with an imprint on the ground. "We're back," Babs said. They all headed south for Acmia Cafe. They opened the wooden, creaky door and came inside. A fireplace was lit and people sat around ordering. "I want a double decaf late' with 1/8 smooth foam, 2/19 hard foam, 22/3478 fat free and with a touch of half sugar free sugar....to go!" The man ordering said. They talked with the people in the Cafe'. "What's up?" asked Buster. "Haven't you heard? The legendary hero has appeared! Now Shirley Magus' army has no chance!" The man proclaimed. Babs was relieved, saying,"Great. Now if we go back to the village of Loons, we don't have to talk like freaks!" Another person in the cafe told them the hero went off to meet with the king. "I think we should go meet this legendary hero," Buster said. They all concurred and proceeded north towards Acmia Castle. Buster walked in the castle doors. As he made his way up the stairs covered in the majestic purple carpet, the chancellor yelled to him, "Sir Buster! The legendary hero has finally appeared! He just arrived to meet the king!" "Who's this legendary hero they all keep mentioning?" Buster asked. "According to my memory banks...." Hamton began, but Babs, with an angry look on her face, said, "We know where you get your stupid information!!! Stop saying according to my memory banks already!!!!!!!!" "As I was saying, a legendary hero was prophecized to come and save the kingdom of Acmia, but never did. I guess history changed," Hamton finished. The group of them headed up to visit the king. " Please, come in, Buster," a maid waiting at the door to the king's quarters said. "He's very ill," she said. Buster ran over to talk to him. "Oh, Buster. I've let down my kingdom.....hack....cough....wheeze.... since we can't locate Cyrus, our hope rests on the boy who has the hero medal. He searches...hack....cough... wheeze.... the southern continent for the sword to defeat that vile Shirley Magus.... hack... cough.... I think it's the end for me partner.... hack...." Babs pulled out an Academy award and handed it to him. "Thank you. I'd like to thank the Academy, and....oh, right. I'm supposed to be dying," the king said. "Where do they find these actors?" Buster asked himself. "We should go find this legendary hero. Maybe he'll take care of Cencos for us," Babs said. "According to...." then Babs scowled at Hamton. "Never mind..." First, they headed for the kitchen. They sat down at the table yelling, "We want food!" The chef pulled them into the kitchen. " Hey! We've got a real hero now! He don't need you weirdoes! Here, make yourselves useful," the chef said as he slammed a box of old food at them. " Give this to the guards. Actually, we don't need them anymore either!" The chef pontificated. "Do we look like delivery people?" Buster asked. "Yes, only you don't get tipped!" The chef said. They decided to bring it to the guards anyway. They were told to take it to the bridge and deliver it. When they reached the bridge, things looked grim. The guards were low on food and getting beaten badly in battle. "Sir Buster!" One yelled when they arrived. He handed them the food. They all tasted some. "Ugh!" one yelled. "This is appalling!" Exclaimed another. "Well...uh....this is what Shirley Magus has done to our food supply. We have to get back at her!" Buster said. That didn't rally the troops very well. "Okay, we'll get back at her. You guys sit here and rest," Buster said. The three headed over the now fixed bridge to confront Shirley Magus' army for the first time. A soldier rushed in from further up the bridge. "Sir! Shirley Magus' troops have just broken through our defenses!" "Stop sniveling," replied the Knight Captain. "You're a disgrace to the Knights of the Square table! Buster here will take care of 'em!" "I will?" Buster asked. "Yes!" The Knight captain ordered. Buster, Babs and Hamton all crossed the bridge. They saw a creature in a white robe and with green gloves on. it yelled, "Hey you *** I'm Fowlmouth Ozzie, and nobody is gettin' over my ****in' bridge!" Ozzie summoned some of Shirley Magus' deadliest creatures: the broken crystal bulbs. Hamton pulled out a brook, and they ran away. Fowlmouth Ozzie retreated. They persued him to the end of the bridge. "That's it! Now you're finished!" he yelled. "What? What are you gonna do?" Buster asked. Babs began a Clint Eastwood impression, "What are you gonna do, punk? Huh? What are you gonna do? Go ahead, make my day!" Then, she flipped back to normal. A giant assemblence of several broken crystal bulbs came at Fowlmouth Ozzie's command. "Go my children!! Distroy these ****!!!!" Fowlmouth Ozzie retreated, leaving only Glassor ( the glass creature's name ) and the three of them.. The three of them needed a plan. "Hey, what's the most common cartoon weapon?" Babs asked. "A cliff?" Buster suggested. "Dynamite?" Hamton chimed in. "No. A mallet! It would smash this guy to bits! But, where do we get one?" she asked. "Why get one? Thanks to Gogo, we can just pull one out!" Buster said. They all pulled them out and smashed it. It was defeated. The three were across the bridge no worse for wear. They headed for an inn to rest. People all around the south end of Acmia were talk about how an epic battle would begin and the hero would save the kingdom. After a night of rest, they went to the elder of Acmia's house. "Only the Masatoon sword can beat Shirley Magus and only the hero can wield it," he explained. "So where is this legendary hero?" Buster asked. "In the south," the elder replied. "We are in the south," Buster said back. "Uh...oh yeah..." the elder stuttered. "I thought you were the elder because you're wise," Buster said. "No, I'm the elder because I"m old," the elder replied. They headed further south to the town of Porre and into a weapon shop. A man in the weapon shop said, "I'm going to use this armor and fight Shirley Magus!" He then charged off, but ran into the wall, making a huge hole in it. "I hope that wasn't the legendary hero!" Babs exclaimed. They went into the cafe. A man told them, "Hey, the other day an ugly creature came through mumbling about a contract dispute and the masatoon. That sure was an ugly duck!" "Ugly duck? That must be Plucky!" Babs shouted. Another person in the cafe said, "I can't believe that ugly runt Tata is the legendary hero!" "Tata?" all three of them said at the same time. They headed for the house of Tata. It was a two story wooden house. Tata's father was inside. He yelled, "I can't believe my son is the legendary hero! It must've been all that Kellog's cereal! High in fibre, and loaded with protien!" "What are you talking about?" Buster asked. "Now that my son is the hero, he does more product endorsements than Michael Jordan ever did!" Tata came down with Nike clothes on, Kellog's cereal, the Microsoft logo on his hat, and about twelve other endorsements. This made them all sick. " This guy is supposed to be saving the world and instead he's doing Nike ads?" Buster said as camera crews walked in through his doors. They all walked away, when an alarm went off on Hamton's head. " Warning! Warning!" he yelled. "What is it?" Babs asked. "A warning alarm on my head!" he replied. "WHY is it doing that?" she asked. " Detecting extreme amounts of dirt in...there!" Hamton explained. He pointed to a forest. He led the charge into it. They got inside and fell into a hole, discovering Plucky living down there. "Plucky! Where have you been?" Babs asked. "Contract holdout. I want the Masatoon sword and a signing bonus, and they shalt not give me it, so I'm sitting this episode out!" he said. "But the king is hurt and Shirley Magus is attacking!" Babs said. "Thy king is hurt? I see. Sorry, that t'isn't quite funny enough to get me to come back. Please be on thy way. Plucky then turned around and faced the wall. "Buster, we need to get him back under contract!" Babs said. "I know. But how?" he asked. "Find the sword!" Babs said. " You're right. Let's ask around. Maybe somebody knows how to get it," Buster said. The three of them rushed out. The group of them heard the people talking, saying, "Tata has headed up the Denadoro mountains." "Buster, let's go find this kid and see where this hero is going," Babs suggested. They reached the mountains as saw Tata running for his life. "You guys better get outta here while you can!" a frantic Tata said. "Those monsters are just too much for me!" And with that Tata ran off the mountains, fearing for his life. The group looked up and saw a small mouse sitting on a small cliff side. "Yeah, intimidating beast," Babs said sarcastically. The three of them exited the mountain side, knowing now that this legandary hero was really fake. "Great, what are the people here gonna do now?" Babs asked. " We just have to find the real legandary hero," Buster said calmly. "Oh, is that all?" Chapter 11: Tata and the Duck "Well, where do we start looking for this thing?" Babs asked. "Well, that kid was going up those mountains. Why don't we?" Buster asked. "Might as well. We've got nothing else to do," Babs replied. Buster walked up the mountain side, and Babs decided it was too tiring to walk and made Hamton lift her up. They reached the top of the cliff and saw an animal sitting by the cliff side. "Mountains are pretty," the creature said. "That's nice. Can you tell me if anybody else is up here, like any hero type people?" Babs asked. "Mountains are pretty," the thing said again. Babs stared at it very annoyed. "Let's try this one more time. IS ANYBODY UP HERE?" Babs asked. "Mountains are pretty," it said again. Babs got mad and kicked it. It fell off the cliff and got splattered on the ground. "Eeew," Babs said after she saw the end result. The group of three kept climbing and reached a cave at the top of the mountain. The three of them walked in and saw two children inside a cave. One child said, "I'm the wind....woosh...." Babs asked him, "What are you doing up here?" He said nothing. The two of them looked beyond the child and saw a sword on top of a platform. "That must be the the Masatoon!" Babs exclaimed. They all rushed towards it. The kid lept out in front of them. "Are you here for the Masatoon?" the child asked. "Of course!" Babs said. "Thought so. Hold on a minute..." and the kid left for a second. He came back with his brother. "What is it Toon?" the one child asked the other. "There here for the Masatoon?" the one asked. the other nodded yes. "Not again!" he said. "So, you want the Masatoon. What fools! You need knowledge, wisdom and power to get the sword!" the one said. "Toons are so silly. It's how you use the sword that's important...not who uses it." The two stood close together and became dual creatures. "Prove yourself!" the one yelled. Babs pointed to the wall and said, "Look over there!" "What is it?" the two said as they turned around and looked at the wall. Buster grabbed the sword and said, "Yoink!" Then the three of them dashed out of the cave and down the mountains. "Wow, they really do posses the power and wisdom of the ancient wise ones," one said. The other nodded in agreement. The three of them reached the base of the mountain and examined their sword. "Hey, this thing is busted!" Babs said. "Who cares? Maybe Plucky will take it anyway," Buster said. They brought it to Plucky. The entered the forest and went into the hole where Plucky was. "I told you, get me the sword or I walk!!!" Plucky said on the cellphone he was talking on. Plucky turned around and saw Buster, Babs and Hamton standing there. "I told you I'm not coming back until my demands are met!" Plucky said. They handed him the sword. "Woo hoo! The sword!!!" Plucky said. He looked down at the sword and said, "Hey! Wait a minute! It's broken!" Plucky said," come back when it's fixed!" "How do we get this thing fixed?" Babs asked Buster. "We'll take it to Dizzy the weaponsmith," Buster suggested. They all went through the portal and via the end of time ended up in a house in Loon Village in 1 000 A.D. "Like hello and some junk!" Babs said. "You're so totally lame. You're like totally fake!" the people replied. "Totally get 'em and some junk!" they said. The three ran away and went to Dizzy's dewelling. The entered and saw no one inside. "Hey, where's Dizzy?" Buster asked. There was a note on the table: "Sorry, me on road selling weapons. Eat yummy food. Come back later - Dizzy." "What!?! That hairy idiot is gone when we actually need him?!?" Babs yelled angrily. They headed back to 600 A.D. to go and try to convince Plucky to rejoin them. On their way back to Plucky's hideout in 600 AD, they came across Tata's house. The three walked inside and Tata was standing there. "You guys from the mountain, come here!" Tata explained to them, "I found this. It got dropped by some mouthy Duck in a cafe," and he handed them a gold medal." Take it. I'm no hero," Tata said. Tata's father came in and said," Scoundrel! I knew this was a scam!" The three of them left. "Maybe Plucky will take this medal. It's gold," Buster said. They took it to Plucky. They came down the rope ladder with the shimmering golden object. "Why are you back?" Plucky asked. the gold caught his eye. "Gold! Gold!! Woo hoo! Forget the dumb sword, I want that!!!" Buster told him, "All you have to do is come back and we'll give it to you." "Thou hast convinced me to return," Plucky said. "Where do we go from here?" asked Babs. "We need to defeat Shirley Magus to stop Cencos from ever existing," Buster said. "To beat thy enemy, Shirley, thou art needeth thee sword Masatoon," Plucky said. Plucky opened up a small box in the room and handed them the broken off piece of the Masatoon. "Here," Plucky said. Hamton looked at the object. "Something is written on it," Hamton said. "What does that say?" Babs asked. It was several strange characters written on a sword. "I'll translate," Hamton said. " Heigh......neiche..... fny.... cruh..." Hamton said. "You can read it?" asked Babs. "No, I'm clearing my throat," Hamton said. Babs looked annoyed. "It actually said this: y.... z..... z..... i.... d...." Hamton said. "Yzzid? What's that?" Babs asked. "It's Dizzy backwards. We have to go see Dizzy," Buster said. "Dizzy? That guy in the loon village?" Babs asked. Plucky told them, "You guys go and get the sword, 'cause thou art need a new contract." Buster said," I thought you were going to come back from the gold," Buster said. "Changed my mind. Get the sword," Plucky said. "Is he really worth it?" Babs asked. "No, but we need to beat Shirley Magus, so I guess we need the sword anyway. Plus, we could use a human shield," Buster said. The two chuckled and left to go see Dizzy. After a trip through the gate and to another gate, they ended up in Loon Village and left to see Dizzy. They walked to Dizzy's home. The old painted sign had been replaced by a sign where all the letters were cut out of magazines. They came inside and saw Dizzy. "You back. Want to see me collection?" Dizzy asked. "No, we need you to fix this," Buster said, handing him the sword. "Ohh. Pretty sword. where you get it?" Dizzy asked. "Why's your name engraved on the sword?" Buster asked. "It.... long story," Dizzy said. " You want to hear story?" Dizzy asked. "Not really," Buster said. Babs elbowed him a bit in the side and she said, "Sure." Dizzy explained that they needed dreamstone to fix the sword. "I have no data of such a rock," Hamton said. "You no find anymore," Dizzy said. Chapter 12: The Rare Red Rock "Where could we go that far back to find this red rock?" Babs asked. "Let's ask the old guy in the end of time," Buster suggested. They went in the gate and headed for the end of time. Like everytime they entered the gate, they saw the rings like around the Tiny Toons logo and the trip within it was blue. They came up to the old guy at the end of time, who was asleep. "HEY OLD GUY!!!" Babs yelled in his ear. He was awaken, his head spinning and ears ringing, he asked, "What do you brats want?" "We need to find some dreamstone," Buster said. "You can find it in the prehistoric era," the old man said. Buster, Babs and Hamton headed to the corner and entered the gate to the prehistoric era. The old man sat there, trying to get back to sleep, and thought to himself, "I don't know if they'll find any or not. I just wanted to get rid of 'em." The three of them landed on the edge of a cliff and fell down, splattering into the ground. They pulled themselves together. "Is anyone else noticing a disturbing trend about where these gates open?" Babs asked. They looked around and saw green, scaly creatures running around. "Half Toon, half dinosaur," Hamton said. A group of them surrounded them and were about to attack when a green cloud came around them. A sour smell knocked all the attackers out. "Ze stupide lizaards!" the voice said in a heavy French accent. "Who is THAT?" Babs asked. "I don't know, but her power is very useful," Hamton said. The strange woman took the creatures away with the foul scent to finish them when more came to attack. Hamton pulled out his vacuum and switched it to push and blew them away. The strange girl came back. "What the heck is she?" Babs asked. The girl had gray animal skins on and a large, puffy tail. She was purple all around except for white on her torso and face. "I wouldn't upset her," Hamton said, "she looks like a skunk." "We're not looking for a fight," Babs said. She rushed up to Buster and pushed him up against the cliff. "Ze trois of you are strong. What is your name?" the girl asked. "Buster," He replied. "Buster? Tres manufique," she said. " I am Fifi," she said in a strong French accent. Fifi examined them all. "Where are you from?" Fifi asked Buster. "Way after the day after tomorrow," Buster said. "You are tres funny," Fifi said. "You come to ze village. Ve talk and eat escargot. Dance! Eat! Fun for me es vous!" "We'd love to but we have to find dreamstone," Babs said. "Stone? Ve have plenty of stones. You come with me, I'll show you ze rocks," Fifi said. They began following her to her village. On their way to her village, Buster asked Babs, "Hey, Babs. How come she's talking so strange?" Buster asked. "She's talking an ancient primitive language, French," she said. "Wow, this culture must really be underveloped,"Buster said. In the town, there were French signs everywhere. There were small huts everywhere. There was absolutely no technology anywhere. A sign around there said, "Downtown Montreal." They followed Fifi into her hut. " Welcome to mon maison," Fifi said. "Ve vill have party." They were brought to an open area and they stood on a stage next to Fifi. "Listen! Zese are new friends," Fifi said. "This iz strong man, Buster. Amis de Crono, Hamton et Babs." "Oui! Oui!" the gathered group said. People began to play drums in the area. "Buster, manger, danser, et chanter!" Buster asked Hamton, "What did she say?" "She said eat dance and sing," Hamton replied. "These ancient civilizations really talk strange," Buster commented. After about half an hour of listening to terrible music, Babs said, "this is worse then listening to John Tesh in concert!" Buster nodded in agreement. On a table was a bowl. "Hey look, food!" Buster said excitedly. Babs and him walked over to it. "come on, try some Pois dans l'eau!" Babs said. " What's that?" Buster asked. "Peas on water. Are you rabbit or mouse? Eat it all in one gulp!" Buster took the bowl and downed it. Babs chuckled. "Burrp," Babs belched out. Buster walked away after that. "Buster, you try les special soupes? Tres bien!" Fifi said. " Fifi fight ze reptiles. They're leader, Azala, tres mal! All people in ze village fight. We must go to ze Luruba villae to fight ze lizards." A few more moments passed. "Buster, you search for ze red rock. I am ze strongest in this village, so it is moi rock! You vish to challenge Fifi? You vin and I vill give you ze rock!" Fifi said. Fifi and Crono had a soup eating contest. Buster defeated her. "You may have ze rock," Fifi said. After all that soup, Buster fell asleep. He awoke the next morning with nobody else around but Babs and Hamton. "Babs, you really acted weird last night," Buster said. "What are you talking about? I was a perfect lady last night.... so why does my stomach hurt so much?" After a second of looking around, Babs exclaimed, "It's gone! The gate key is gone! We're stuck here!" There were footprints all over the ground, which they all assumed were left by the thief. The three went and talked to Fifi. "Huh? Buster, you are up already?" Fifi asked, followed by a long, sustained yawn. "Sorry to wake you up, but we've been robbed!" Babs said. "Robbed! Ze thief! Ze scoundrel! Ze fiend!" she said. "It must have been ze reptiles. Buster come with me, and ve vill find ze reptiles." Hamton came with them, as all the prehistoric soup left Babs feeling ill. Chapter 13: Footsteps! Follow! Fifi led them to a forest south of their primitive village of Montreal. In the forest, they saw Kino, a person who attended the party last night and who didn't feel too pleasant about newcomers. "Kino, vat did you do?" Fifi asked him. He said nothing. "Tell me now!" Fifi said, pointing her tail, ready to spray her foul and deadly smell. "Ok, I vill tell you everything. I took Buster's stuff," he said. "Vy did you take his stuff?" Fifi asked. "I like you best, Fifi, but vu like Buster! I don't like Buster!" Fifi sprayed him a little with her awful, wretched scent. "Ugh! I have been sprayed!" he yelled. "Where is ze item?" Fifi asked. "Ze lizards took it!" Kino replied. "Sacre bleu! We must find them!" Fifi exclaimed. Kino was sent home and Buster, Hamton and Fifi followed the lizard footprints which were left in the light colored dirt around the flourishing green trees. The forest was one big maze. "How are we going to make our way through here?" Buster asked. "Leeve it to me!" Fifi said. She pulled out her skunk tail and sprayed it everywhere. All the trees wilted, making the path easy to see. "Buster," Babs said. "What?" Buster asked. "That must've been how that area in our time got cleared out and died!" Buster never though of it like that. How a lot of what they were doing now determined what the future looked like. No matter the destruction to the forest, the three made it out of the forest and found the reptile lair. It was a caved cut out of the rockface of a short mountain in the dead center of the forest. "Zere it iz!" Fifi said. "Ze reptile lair!" The three walked inside and saw several torches lining the wall. The band of three walked into the next room and suddenly were surrounded by lizards. "Get zem!" Fifi commanded. Buster struck one with his sword, but it only shattered the sword. "Uh oh," Buster said. The sword was fine again moments later, but they needed a plan. Fifi tried spraying, but to no avail. "Ze lizards must be beaten by thundaire!" Fifi said. Buster pointed his finger and decided to try the electricity ability granted by Gogo to him. He thought it would be the usual small charge, but he was wrong. It was a huge bolt, and as it fired, pushed Buster to the ceiling. He was slammed into several hard rocks by the force of his own power, but it fried the lizards. "Tres manifique!" Fifi said. "Oww," Buster commented. The three of them had to proceed through a few more rooms, distroying lizards and fighting their way through. For the next few attempts, Buster's bolts only pushed him back to the wall and didn't slam him into the wall. Finally, they reached the end room. The lizard king, Azala was standing asking himself, "Could the apes have made something this advanced?" Azayla turned around and noticed them standing there. "You don't look like this Toon here," Azayla said. "Give us the key back!" Babs ordered. "No, tell me about it first," he said. They refused. "Fine, I wasn't planning to give it back anyway!" he said. Buster fired a few bolts. Nothing happened. Azayla began to laugh. As he cackled, Fifi fired her disgusting scent into the air, and Ayazla passed out. The three walked over and picked up the gate key. Then, they all headed back to Montreal. "You're leaving?" Fifi asked. "Yeah, we have to go. Thanks for all your help," Buster said. "I am zorry for stealing ze key," Kino said. They forgave him, and headed back to the gate. The three lept into the familiar mode of transportation. Chapter 14: The Masatoon! The group of them finally had the rock to get the Masatoon fixed and get Plucky to rejoin them. They headed back to Dizzy's house. They walked in tired and still a bit sick from the bad soup. "Dizzy, we found the dreamstone," Buster said. "You find stone? I repair Masatoon!" Dizzy said. He took the sword downstairs. Calamity Coyote, who decided to accompany them for a while, aided in the repair of the sword. Dizzy was asked by a sign, "How are we gonna fix it?" Dizzy replied with," You work on dreamstone. Me work on sword." After hours of work and Calamity getting a huge buzz off way too much coffee, it was done. The sword was handed over to them. "How odd," Hamton said. "My sensors are picking up...spiritual energy!" "That be everything," Dizzy said. "Buster, let's take the Masatoon to Plucky." The group left Dizzy's hut with the intent of finally ending this stupid contract dispute with Plucky. On their way to a gate to get to the time Plucky was in ( Dizzy was in 1000, and Plucky was in 600 ), Babs said, "Don't you think it's dumb that Warner Bros. gives Plucky a new contract and everything he wants while we are left walking around here doing all the work and we get nothing?" " I don't like it, either," Buster said. "On the other hand, if we don't beat Shirley Magus and stop Cencos, there will be no WB to pay us!" Calamity went back to the end of time while Buster, Babs and Hamton all reached Plucky's forest hideout in 600 A.D. Plucky, as before, was on his cell phone with his agent. "You're back!" he said suprised when Buster, Babs and Hamton emerged from the ladder. "Look, we got you your stupid sword, and the gold medal. Will you come back now?" Buster asked. "You did all that for me?" Plucky asked. Buster nodded yes. Plucky broke out laughing. "I always knew you were a sap!" Plucky said between spurts of hysterical laughter. After regaining his composure, Plucky said, "Yeah, I"ll come back, for I must defeateth thy sworn foe, Shirley Magus and revenge Sir Cyrus, a truly noble warrior!" "I definetley didn't miss the way he talks in this episode while he was gone!" Buster said. They decided to rest in Plucky's hideout that night. He had moved several beds, a T.V., a Playstation and a computer in there. "Were you planning on living here or what?" asked Babs. "Of course not. I was just making it a little cozier," Plucky replied. That night, Plucky remembered something. the screen got somewhat blurry around the edges and the color was faded in this memory. It was what most cartoon characters feared: A flashback! It began with Cyrus, Plucky's old friend in the castle. "Cyrus, are you leaving?" asked Queen Leene. " Yes, it's time we took back the hero medal from the Frog King. and I'd like to see the mythical sword for myself!" Cyrus said. The king protested, saying, "But the kingdom needs you!" Cyrus said something as he walked out, "As long as there is life in these bones, I will return." On his way out, the Knights of the square table wished him a safe journey. Cyrus then came to the front door of the castle, where a young enthusiastic Plucky waited for him. "Pardon the delay. shall we be off?" he asked. The Queen stopped them for a second before they left to say, "Plucky you be careful, too." "Be sound of health, your majesty," Plucky replied. Plucky was only 10 at the time, and he's 14 now. The two reached a battle point in the forest. After spending hours fighting off waves of attacks, they met up with the frog king. "So, you want the badge of courage? Well... come and get it if you can!" Cyrus struck it and it lived, but surrendered the coveted item. Later on, the two reached a mountain summit. Shirley Magus, with long purple hair and red, demonic eyes was waiting with loyal servant Fowl Mouth Ozzie. Cyrus was without any weapons. Plucky was weak from fighting their way up. "Cyrus...I'm... a goner...." Plucky said. " Plucky, escape while I keep them at bay!" Cyrus ordered. "You like totally better worry about yourself and some junk!" The evil Shirley Magus said. Her voice was not that of the Shirley the Loon we're all familiar with. This voice was deeper and more evil sounding. "Go, Plucky, go!"Cyrus yelled. " Like, this is no time for cheerleading. Plucky, who seemed to instantly dawn a cheerleading outfit, said, "Oh, darn," in frustration. There went his most brilliant plan to escape this fight. Cyrus charged after Shirley Magus, but she sent out several beams of electricity from her hair. It killed Cyrus. His last words were, "Run, Plucky!" Plucky was left all alone to confront Shirley Magus and Fowlmouth Ozzie. "What's the matter, kid? Aren't you going to try your luck?" Fowlmouth Ozzie asked. "Like, does the cat totally have your tongue or what, kid?" Shirley Magus asked. "How about it Shirl? Can you change this kid into something more ****ing pleasing?" Fowlmouth Ozzie asked. "Let's change him from this honorable knight into a greedy, sarcastic, selfish brat!" Fowlmouth Ozzie suggested. "Like, why do we need another copy of you? Duh!" Shirley Magus replied. she laughed, but made the changed and sent Plucky hurdling off a cliff. The flashback ended. "Four years hath passed," Plucky said. "That explains why you turned out a selfish, annoying, greedy and immature brat. It was because of demonic forces! Isn't that great?" Babs asked. "Oh, just wonderful!" Plucky replied sarcastically. They all prepared to set out to fight Shirley Magus. "Though we may fail....let us goeth to the layer of thee Shirley Magus, for if we meet certain doom, we shall have died with honor!" Plucky declared. "Where does Plucky get all these medieval expressions from?" Babs asked. Plucky pulled out a huge dictionary labeled," the big book of Irritating and overused medieval expressions." They decided not to travel all together ( actually, WB only wanted to pay to have three characters on the screen at any one time ). Buster, Plucky and Babs all traveled to Shirley Magus' lair together. It would be a hard journey, but they needed to make it, and not just to fill air time. Buster, Babs and Plucky emerged from the place where Plucky had been hiding. A green forest with dense foliage and several large, old trees surrounded them. "So, how do we find Shirley Magus?" Buster asked Plucky. " I don't know. Let's look around," Plucky replied. The three of them wandered around for hours. Nobody knew how to get to Shirley Magus' lair, and it led them to a dead end. "Great! We can't find the villain! Now how am I going to get rich and famous off of this?" Plucky asked angrily. The three of them had ended up at a large wall. Once again the screen got somewhat blurred and the color faded. Time for another flashback. Plucky remembered being really young and a group of boys chasing him. "Get back here!" one yelled. Plucky kept running and eventually ran into his friend, Cyrus. "What's going on here?" Cyrus asked. "They're after me!" Plucky exclaimed," I don't know why!" One of the chasers said, "He stole my wallet!" Plucky laughed nervously and handed it back. The group of chasers left, and Cyrus, who was only twelve at this time ( Plucky would have been about 4 ) began telling Plucky how he'd have to grow up one day. I guess that day hasn't come yet. Plucky then flashbacked to a later time. Him and Cyrus were both a bit older now. Cyrus told him, "Hey, Plucky. I've been thinking about becoming a knight." "Are you insane?!?" Plucky asked," you'll get killed!" Cyrus looked at Plucky angrily and said, "Thanks for your vote of confidence." They stood silently for a moment before Cyrus asked, "Why don't you join, too?" "I don't think I'd make the cut," Plucky said. "Sure you would," Cyrus said. "Just come to Acmia Castle tomorrow morning at nine and..." Plucky interrupted and said, "Tomorrow at nine? I don't want to wake up by then!" "You'd make lots of money," Cyrus said. Plucky's eyes suddenly lit up. He decided to enlist. He then remembered Cyrus' death again. He remembered after being thrown of the cliff by Shirley Magus, something landed next to him. Cyrus' golden medal. The same one Buster gave him so he would sign a new contract and get back in this episode. The flashback ended, and Babs said, "Hey, Plucky. Judging by these flashbacks you keep having, Shirley Magus really didn't do anything to you. You were always lazy and greedy. Isn't that great?" Plucky, looking annoyed said, "Makeseth my day" in a very sarcastic manner. "Handeth over the Masatoon!" Plucky ordered. Babs handed him the sword. "What are you planning to do with that?" Babs asked. Plucky thought for a moment, looking as if he was posing for a camera and plunged the sword into the wall. The Masatoon was Cyrus' sword, and it was what got Cyrus to be rich and famous. Plucky hoped it would do the same thing for him. "I taketh the sword of Cyrus, and hopeth that it can bring me the wealth and fame it brotteth him!" Nothing happened with the sword. Plucky kicked it, annoyed. "Oww!" Plucky exclaimed, holding his foot in pain, "Isn't it supposed to do something? Like, tell me how to find Shirley Magus or something. Come on you dumb sword!!!" The sword began to glow. A translucent blue light was shot out of it, and the wall opened. They walked in and saw a dark cave with a few lit torches and bats flying around everywhere. Plucky grabbed one of the torches to light their path through the cave. While walking through the cave, a few hideous green creatures approached them. They were pretty short. Plucky, snickering, walked up to him and hit him with the Masatoon. The sword rattled and shook and Plucky started vibrating. Buster grabbed his arm and stopped the shaking. They tried a different method. Babs fired off a stream of water. Before, it was just like a small water gun when she fired it, but all of their powers had increased. After Babs fired this water, Plucky stood there with his jaw open all the way to the ground. Buster walked up and lifted up his jaw back up to the rest of his face. "How'd you do THAT?" Plucky asked. Buster told him," we'll show you later." They reached the end of the cave. Once they exited, they saw a large, dark structure. It had a statue of Shirley Magus herself on the top of it. All of this building was made of bronze colored stone. Bats surrounded it. Babs, suddenly looking like a real estate agent, commented in a southern accent, "Isn't it just so cozy? All the comforts of Transylvania." Turning back to normal, Babs said, "Who are we going to fight, Shirley Magus or Marilyn Manson? This is the weirdest place I've ever seen!" The front door had an odd, black welcome mat that said, "Welcome to the site of your death. "Wow. Very welcoming. I guess no girl scouts come around here selling cookies," Babs said. "'Tis the slightest bit odd," Plucky said. They opened the door to a highly terrifying sound. They could hear Barry Manalow emanating from within. "This place is too wierdeth for me, I'm going back," Plucky said. Babs grabbed his arm and pulled him back. "You're the guy who wants to beat Shirley Magus so much, remember?" Babs asked. "Oh, righteth," Plucky replied, disappointed that he couldn't get out of this that easily. Chapter 15: Shirley Magus' lair The inside had only very small lava lamps lighting up their path, and they were more distracting than anything else. The floor, wall and ceiling were all dark blue. Crystal balls were at the end of every banister on the stairs within, and the haunting music continued to play. The three of them walked up the first small flight of stairs. They creaked as they walked up. "Good thing we left Hamton at the end of time. These stairs could go at any minute. Imagine if we had brought him!" Babs said. Buster frowned, pretending to defend their portly, cybernetic friend, but couldn't help but laugh a little at it. After three or four more sets of stairs, they were met by Fowlmouth Ozzie. He was wearing a large white robe and his red mohawk-type hairdo was still there. "Ha, you little ****! You're really gonna get you *** kicked now!" Fowlmouth Ozzie. The group looked on angrily at him. Fowlmouth Ozzie snapped his fingers and said, "Hey! Rhubella! Hurry it up!!" Rhubella rat followed came out from a door behind Fowlmouth Ozzie. "Yeah? Whaddaya want?" she asked, with a cigarette in her mouth. "Beat these guys up!" Fowlmouth Ozzie ordered. Fowlmouth then left the room. "It's a..... hey, Babs, is that a guy or a girl?" Plucky asked. Babs looked closely for a moment. "No idea," she replied. Rhubella's face got red and incensed. She pulled out a giant cigarette. "Let's see who's laughing in a minute!" she cried. She raised her hands in the air, and the volume on the horrific music got louder. Buster, Babs, and Plucky all knelt down, holding their ears in pain. Rhubella than fired thick smoke from her oversized cigarette into the air, causing the three of them to cough madly. "Got any bright ideas?" Buster asked between cough spurts. Babs got up for a moment, thanks to the help of ACME earplugs to tune out the dreadful music, and suddenly was dressed as a police woman. "Excuse me, sir... or ma'am," she began, "this is a no smoking area." Rhubella gave her a peculiar look, and then took another puff from the immense cigarette. "Maybe I didn't make myself clear," Babs said. She took a no smoking sign and hit Rhubella with it. Just then, Roderick showed up utilizing the same cigarette attack. "Do I have to send you to jail, son?" Babs asked. "Jail?" Rhubella and Roderick asked nervously. Babs nodded yes. "Wait, I'll stop," Rhubella said. "Me, Too!" Roderick said. "You just get outta hear before I write you up," Babs said. Rhubella and Roderick ran very quickly out of there. "She's got no guts," Babs commented. Now the first real threat of this towering structure had been passed. Fowlmouth Ozzie came out of the room behind them, saying, "Hey , Rhubella you finish...." Then he looked and saw the three standing there, and he said, "Oh, ****!" He then fled quickly. "Should we run after him?" Babs asked. "Why? It's not like he'll ever fight back," Buster replied. "He's all talk and no action." "But the talking itself is pretty nefarious," Babs commented. The others nodded in agreement. They walked into the room behind them where Fowlmouth Ozzie has gone. In the next room, they saw Hamton, Calamity, Buster's mom, and Plucky's agent all standing there. "What're you guys doin' here?" Buster asked. Buster's mom stepped forward and talked to him, "You despicable little brat! Children this vile deserved to be punished!" She then transformed from Buster's aging mother into a hideous monster, still in the dress. It growled at Buster, standing only inches away. "Hey, you forgot to shave your legs," Buster told it. The thing looked down and saw it was wearing a pink dress with hairy legs. "How embarrassing!" the creature exclaimed as it ran out of the room. The next one to deal with was Calamity. "Calamity, why are you here?" Babs asked. "I don't know," Calamity said back. Buster aimed his finger and fired thousands of volts into him. "Buster! what are you doing?" Babs asked. "That's not Calamity," Buster said. He walked up to the zapped body and pulled back the mask, "see?" "How'd you know?" Babs asked. "Calamity never talks," Buster said. "Really? I never noticed," Babs replied. They looked on at the remaining people. They looked authentic, but the group had picked up on the fact that they were all phonies, except for Plucky. Plucky's fake agent began to say, "I don't want any commission. I got you a big contract on that sequel to Titanic. All you have to do is come with me." Plucky began to follow it. Buster and Babs both quickly pulled Plucky away from the slick haired, black suited agent. "Plucky! He's not real!" Buster told him. "But, what he said sounded so wonderful!" Plucky argued in a voice higher than usual. In a second, Plucky snapped out of it and the creatures ran for their lives. Another door appeared in the back of the room. A red carpet led to it. The three of them walked through the large, wooden door. The next room had a staircase that seemed to reach up around a hundred feet. "Great, look at the size of those stairs!" Babs complained. The three of them walked over to the stairs. They took a few steps and suddenly, the stairs behind them began to collapse. "Hurry!" Buster yelled. The falling stair was always the one right behind them. On their frantic dash up the stairs, Plucky tripped. "Plucky!" Babs yelled. Suddenly, the stairs stopped falling right before they got to the one Plucky was on. "Wait a second," Plucky said as he pulled himself up and walked to the next stair. When he reached the next stair, the one behind him fell. Plucky chuckled a little. It was a stupid trap that couldn't really pose any danger. They climbed all the flights of stairs and saw a large door with the words, "Keep out!" posted on it. "Yeah, Shirley, like that's going to keepeth me from slaying thee!" Plucky said, standing on his tip toes and with one finger in the air. He reached and turned the knob, receiving a huge electric shock. While Plucky was being zapped, Buster opened the door and he and Babs walked in. "Coming, Plucky?" Babs asked. Plucky stood there, singed and covered in black soot. "Oh, sure. Just letteth me starteth to breathing again," Plucky replied. Plucky dusted himself off and followed those two into the next room. It was empty. Just like nearly every other room in the lair. "Great! Thou art hast traveled all this way to find a dead end!" Plucky said in frustration. Babs, now looking like Sherlock Holmes, said, "Oh, Pluckson. Simple deduction tells us that she isn't going to just let us into her hiding spot. Why, I say we search for clues and...ahhh...." Babs had accidentally stumbled upon a trap door. She fell and a loud crash was heard on the main floor. Buster and Plucky shrugged and jumped in after her. When they all reached the botoom, Babs said in obvious pain, ".... elementary, dear Watson...... " They all recovered from their fall momentarily, but there was absolutely no light on the room. "Buster, do that strange lightning thing and get some light in here," Babs said. Buster fired off a small shot, but it accidentally hit Plucky. "Improveth thy aim," Plucky said. Buster tried again, and the small flash revealed an image of somebody standing in the room with them. Within seconds a light was flipped on, and they saw who the person in the room with them was. She was taller than Buster. She had long purple hair, a purple dress and large, blood red eyes. It was Shirley Magus. She wasn't looking at them. In fact, as far as anyone could tell, she didn't know anybody else was in the room. "Like, all might and cool stuff knowing Cencos. Totally change this world and some junk," Shirley Magus said. Small, blue fires appeared in a circle around her. Shirley Magus levitated. She hummed for a moment before Plucky yelled at her, "Shirley Magus, I haveth something for thee. For thy evil deeds mustn't go unpunished, and thou art must pay for thy evil crimes, and I must go forth and..." Shirley Magus interrupted him with, "Like, do you ever shut up?" Plucky pulled out a banana peel and said, "I shall slay you with this!" Shirley Magus laughed. "Sorry, wrong weapon," Plucky said, embarrassed. Plucky frowned and held up the Masatoon. "Like, you have that totally dumb sword," Shirley Magus said. Plucky responded with, "Ha! This dumb sword is going to do you in!" Shirley snapped her finger and suddenly, gained control of Buster's arm. She forced Buster to fire lightning at Plucky. "Like, even your friends don't like you," Shirley said, followed by demonic laughter. "I have an idea," Plucky told Babs while ducking away from Buster. He walked over and hit Buster across the face. "Come on!" Plucky said. Babs walked over and they both pummeled him madly. "Ow!" Buster said as they tried to get him to regain control oh his limbs, "Why don't you hit Shirley instead?" Plucky replied, "Yeah, I never would've though of that!" Plucky walked over with the Masatoon sword and said, "No more shall thy cause pain upon the citizens of this land, for I..." And then Plucky was interrupted by Buster yelling at him, "Shut up and use your sword!" Plucky finally was quiet, drew his sword and swung. He missed entirely and was sent flying by the force of his swing. Buster, who finally regained control of himself, said, "Plucky, what are you doing?" "Sorry, Buster, I've never actually tried hitting anything with this before," Plucky replied, pulling himself off the ground. Shirley Magus was cackling at their blundering efforts. Babs walked over to her and said, "Like, your hair is totally messed up. Maybe you should go fix it." Shirley's hand formed into a mirror, and a snake came out of her mouth to fix her hair. "I think she could use a breath mint," Plucky commented. "Like, my hair is totally fine," Shirley Magus said. "Now, you must like totally pay and some junk." Babs looked scared for her life at the approaching demonic loon. Shirley Magus walked over to her and played the evil Barry Manalow music from before in her ear. "No! No!" Babs exclaimed. The music was utterly horrible. Babs was virtually paralyzed with fear and disgust by the terrible sound. Buster tried to zap her with the electricity bolts Gogo endowed him with, but when he fired it, Shirley pulled out her hair dryer. It intercepted the blast and suddenly switched on. As the battle progressed, a crystal ball in the back of the room was growing. Inside the ball, images of "quality" television flashed. This was the device being used to c